Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:19:48 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: "Phillips, Paul" <paulp@mail.smu.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netra T1 105 and two ethernet ports Message-ID: <20031220001948.GS91270@sirius.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <F5C1DDA36ABD5049B458492E5FA2A26C7A0569@s31xe3.systems.smu.edu> References: <F5C1DDA36ABD5049B458492E5FA2A26C7A0569@s31xe3.systems.smu.edu>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:36:50PM -0600, Phillips, Paul wrote: > I am quite new to FreeBSD, but not a complete newbie to the unix world. > > I have a Netra T1 105 with two ethernet ports. It is running FreeBSD 5.2 beta. > > I want to have each ethernet port with its own IP address, but both addresses will be on the same subnet. > > I can't make it work, so I have been reading various archives, trying to figure out what was going on. > > After noticing that both ports had the same MAC address, and doing some archive reading, I found that I can easily change the second port to another Mac address by doing this: > > ifconfig hme1 ether aa:1:2:3:4:6 > > I can confirm that this change in MAC address has taken place by ifconfig with no arguments. > > However, when I next type: > ifconfig hme1 inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > then I get this message: > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > > I don't know what this means, or how to change it. Yes, you have to change the MAC in the same statement. regards, -- wca
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