From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 15:37:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02508 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA24999; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:35:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Douglas Setzer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Problem. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Douglas Setzer wrote: > This the second time this has happened, so maybe you guys can help so > I don't have to do a reinstall again. Reinstalling is a Windows methodology that does NOT work with FreeBSD. We're much more civilized than that. :-) That's why we have configuration files and 'ifconfig'. > We moved the physical location of our FreeBSD machine from one room to > another, in doing so, we ended up booting the FreeBSD machine while it > was not connected to the network. We hooked a cable into it after it > was booted (sitting at a login prompt)- I logged in as root and shut > it down- we restarted the computer and now it will not ping the > network- not it's gateway, and definately nothing outside. Hack /etc/rc.conf and check your 'ifconfig_xx0' line and make sure it's set up with the proper IP and netmask for the new net, and change 'defaultrouter' to point to the new router. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message