From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 3 19:38:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kineo.bowdoin.edu (kineo.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BE337B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcowger@bowdoin.edu) Received: from bowdoin.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by kineo.bowdoin.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GFXGOI00.5JQ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:38:42 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" To: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-ID: <3b55d93b5886.3b58863b55d9@bowdoin.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:38:42 -0400 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: Restart rc.conf X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG By design, a DHCP server will always give you the same address you had before if at all possible, this is part of the RFC for DHCP itself, and is normal behavior. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2001 10:40 pm Subject: Re: Restart rc.conf > 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 > > > > \|||/ > > (o o) > > /-----------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------- > -----\ > > | Jonathan M. Slivko E-Mail: jslivko@jslivko.org > | > > | IRC Nick: optix` Backup: js43064n@pace.edu > | > > | AIhttp://www.jslivko.org | > > |--------------------------------------------------------------- > -----| > > | "History teaches us that days like this are best spent in > bed" | > > \--------------------------------------------------------------- > -----/ > > > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote: > > > > > 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 . > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message