Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 07:51:24 -0700 From: "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: "Vince Hoffman" <jhary@unsane.co.uk>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Change an IP address without a reboot Message-ID: <340a29540611030651h5eddd9dex4631163c5b9d2c02@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <454A8C3C.60106@unsane.co.uk> References: <340a29540611020711v50a08a2ge07490323cf37af0@mail.gmail.com> <20061102152746.D0ACB43D72@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <340a29540611021048i2e113fbcj4ac2ff7d4d4fa245@mail.gmail.com> <454A8C3C.60106@unsane.co.uk>
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On 11/2/06, Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> wrote: > > You have the order wrong > > root@crayfish > (00:22:37 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0 inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30 > root@crayfish > (00:23:27 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0 > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> > inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe9f:531c%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 10.0.0.100 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.0.0.127 > inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30 prefixlen 64 > ether 00:11:d8:9f:53:1c > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > root@crayfish > (00:23:32 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0 inet6 2001:470:1f01:244::30 remove > root@crayfish > (00:23:34 <~>) 0 # ifconfig xl0 > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> > inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe9f:531c%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 10.0.0.100 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.0.0.127 > ether 00:11:d8:9f:53:1c > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > > Interesting! Thanks much for this. I tried and it works. Interesting that for IPv4 this command works: ifconfig <intf> delete <IP> but for IPv6 one must do: ifconfig <intf> inet6 <IP> remove Thanks again. Andy
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