From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 15:11:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C63AF16A40F for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C0843D79 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:11:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o37so107559nzf for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:11:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=jgB0VtitJRTg4uqML7eZ1HWQAl7fB3DiqSt9OXHL/PprFzNIWvd7g+fwqfxRTIwMvnxiG+138DQsGqjE2OBgyvPfB97+ru8oiQGoQs4N31MTKzegrTSfSl+YYTKoh475U4JXi5T8ZUAtgHKPN0euPNA4j4uujMlHbFrZzcc81w0= Received: by 10.35.31.14 with SMTP id i14mr1007581pyj.1162480284565; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.121.10 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:11:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <340a29540611020711v50a08a2ge07490323cf37af0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:11:24 -0700 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Change an IP address without a reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:11:33 -0000 Yesterday I asked a couple of questions about networking (assuming that it actually went to the list, I never saw my message in my inbox which makes me wonder if it was ever posted to the list). I've worked out the issue with IPv6, now the only remaining question is how does one actually change the IP address that FreeBSD is using in such a way that the first address is dicarded. I'm not in front of the machine, but I have the network currently not configured. I'll be changing things on the fly often given what I'm working on. When it boots, I log in and configure an IPv6 address like this: ifconfig sis0 inet6 fec0:1:1:1::3/64 Which works just great. It so happens in this little isolated network I'm building, this address was taken, so then I did the exact same command as above only I gave it the address of fec0:1:1:1::2/64. The part that I want to know how to eliminate is, after issuing the second command, I listed the interface configuration using ifconfig and both the addresses were present. How can I eliminate the first address? I've looked over the ifconfig manual page several times, each time reading it just a little bit more carefully, but I haven't found anything that answers this question. Would some kind person please help me out and show me what it is that's eluding me from making this happen? Thanks, Andy