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Subject: Re: ifconfig
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990126200439.15372A-100000@cm110108.cableco-op.com> from Jeff Gray at "Jan 26, 99 08:09:20 pm"
To: jwg@netbox.com (Jeff Gray)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:19:43 -0600 (CST)
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Since your ethernet was already running, it's always a good idea
to set the port down first. 

Interestingly, you can should be able to do that in one command as
the code is sequential in operation. I.E.

ifconfig ex0 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmaske yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy down up

should have done what you want.

Paul.


In a previous message, Jeff Gray said:
> Hi,
> 
> Running 2.2.6.
> 
> Yesterday my cable modem folks decided I needed to have a different IP
> address.  No biggie in theory.  As root ran 
> ifconfig ex0  inet xxx.xx.xxx.xx   netmask yyy.yy.yy.yy up
> 
> checked via ifconfig -a and it looked fine.
> However, I was not connected to the net.  No way.
> 
> So, I edited /etc/rc.conf and rebooted and all was fine.
> 
> My question is:  shouldn't ifconfig have worked as above without
> rebooting, or did I leave a step off?
> 
> Thanks
> jeff
> 
> 
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