From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 11:56:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E72516A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ctb-mesg5.saix.net (ctb-mesg5.saix.net [196.25.240.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB4043FB1 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:56:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roland@thegreentree.org) Received: from thegreentree.org (unknown [196.25.134.130]) by ctb-mesg5.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309A92BD2 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:56:22 +0200 (SAST) Received: from Spooler by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MO00000F; 1 Nov 03 21:56:57 +0200 Received: from spooler by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32); 1 Nov 03 21:56:29 +0200 Received: from roland (127.0.0.1) by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MG00000E; 1 Nov 03 21:56:22 +0200 From: "Roland Giesler" Cc: Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:56:22 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <8B75A00E-0CA4-11D8-BDE3-000A95D7C3C6@pursued-with.net> Subject: RE: Starting/stopping a network interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 19:56:25 -0000 The interface is up, but it still read 192.168.1.1 !! Although I've changed /etc/rc.conf the change doesn't seem to be effective. That's why I was wondering how to stop/start the interface so the change could be re-read (or am I thinking to much in a Windows fashion here?) Thanks Roland -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Stevens [mailto:kevin_stevens@pursued-with.net] Sent: 01 November 2003 21:50 To: Roland Giesler Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting/stopping a network interface On Nov 1, 2003, at 17:19, Roland Giesler wrote: > I've searched high and low, but can't find an answer to this problem. > Maybe someone could help or point me in the right direction? Here > goes: > I've got FreeBSD 4.7 set up with 2 netcards. One is 192.168.99.2 and > the other 195.15.176.2 and I've got routing between them enabled. I > cannot ping the 192.168.99.2 card even from the console. Put I can > browse the web from the machine (I've got X with KDE set up) and also > ping other machines on the network. Is the interface up? What does ifconfig -a say? KeS