From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 21:35:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 21:35:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cheshire.manunkind.org (cheshire.manunkind.org [216.254.114.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71ED337B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ryan@localhost) by cheshire.manunkind.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB95YKP05545; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:34:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ryan) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:34:19 -0500 From: Ryan Younce To: jerry Cc: Ryan Younce , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing nics Message-ID: <20001209003419.B5249@cheshire.manunkind.org> References: <3A2FED94.6E96C229@pc-intouch.com> <20001207232032.A922@cheshire.manunkind.org> <00120820313100.02728@luke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00120820313100.02728@luke>; from jerry@pc-intouch.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:25:46PM +0000 Sender: ryan@cheshire.manunkind.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake jerry : > Thanks for the help.. I got the rc.conf looking as you sed.. except using > ed0 instead of ep0.. Still didn't work...I re-installed, still not working... > Will re-install when I get more time.. I've done it twice before and I will > get it again.. Odd. I've switched out NICs a nontrivial number of times and haven't had any problems. Certainly nothing warranteeing a reinstall. Sometimes I've juggled IP addresses between two cards in the same system without rebooting. No probs. There is the possibility that arp tables aren't updating quickly enough before you give up and try again. I'm certainly no networking guru, but I've seen machines which believed the IP address of another machine to reside at an old NIC when a new one had been swapped in the meantime (IP address to hardware translations are kept in the routing tables). Usually required flushing the tables on the culprit and letting them update, or waiting the (hopefully short) time for them to update themselves. I have no idea how long FreeBSD waits for this...I've never timed it. What does /sbin/ifconfig -a report when you do this? -- Ryan Younce, Cat Herder / ryan@manunkind.org / http://www.manunkind.org/~ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message