From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 22:59:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637EF37B400 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA24143E42 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 04F9881467; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:29:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:29:17 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Pookie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Repair" for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020915055917.GL30557@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000001c25c7a$d9051670$0a5efea9@pookie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c25c7a$d9051670$0a5efea9@pookie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 14 September 2002 at 22:43:32 -0700, Pookie wrote: > I need to figure out how to repair man Ethernet device, or restart it. I > noticed in windows you can "repair" one. How is this accomplished in > FBSD? I think you're getting confused by terminology, or maybe I am. If your device is broken, you'll have to replace it. What do you really want to do? To restart it, you could do something like # ifconfig ed0 down # ifconfig ed0 up That should never be necessary, though. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message