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HI Jonathan ;
    But when I type "ifconfig" , it shows me the affected ethernet card still
holding old IP address.

"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote:

> ifconfig will unbind and bind the new IP's without the need for a reboot,
> AFAIK. -- Jonathan
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> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote:
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> > Hi ;
> >    After I have change the IP address of the erthernet card , how do I
> > restart it to update the change without rebooting the system .
> >     I've tried type ". /etc/rc.conf" but seems like not work at all .
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