Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:43:29 -0400 From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: route problems in 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <bjqqa1$337$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <jesse@wingnet.net> <20030911210230.471115D04@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:19:42 -0400 >> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >> >> Howdy list, >> >> I'm having major problems with the route command today. >> My machine is an IBM Thinkpad A30p laptop, running FreeBSD >> 5.1-RELEASE. >> >> I have two interfaces. wi0 and fxp0 >> >> Normally, if I want to swap from wi0 to fxp0, all I >> have to do is: >> >> killall dhclient >> ifconfig wi0 down >> ifconfig fxp0 up >> dhclient fxp0 >> >> And I'm done. However, ocassionally this backfires, >> like it did today: > > Jesse, > > Try changing your list of commands to: > killall dhclient > ifconfig wi0 down > route flush > ifconfig fxp0 up > dhclient fxp0 > > That should fix it up. Sorry for neglecting to mention it, but I did that, multiple times, in multiple places. I _didn't_ do it the FIRST time, but I did do multiple times after that. Perhaps I should do it the first time, from now on? Would that prevent the problem? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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