From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 16:25:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95FD4E23 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48A2BB6B for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-76-193.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.193]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s9OGPgKq031712 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:25:42 -0500 Message-ID: <544A7EFD.2010003@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:31:57 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Noob ifconfig question :-/ .... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:25:50 -0000 .... I have been tussling w/ getting my newly acquired WatchGuard FireBox Edge firewall appliance setup. It requires a computer on the LAN on its own IP block (192.168.111.0/8), w/ netmask 255.255.255.0. I was/am trying to use ifconfig to set this box up on that block (temporarily !!!) to get that thing setup & configured. When I (successfully) reset my IP address to 192.168.111.27, I am able to access the device w/ my browser. However, it asked for a user name & passwd, which I don't have & which the manual which came w/ it doesn't specify :-/ .... Any clues what those might be :-) .... Slightly OT, I realize, however I will probably later try to change it over to *BSD, as per an earlier post, in case that helps .... TIA for any & all clues .... Separately, when I reset the IP address of this box back to normal (192.168.0.27), I could no longer access the web, or my DSL modem (on a different subnet behind a router (to be replaced by the afore-mentioned firewall)) w/o rebooting. When I did an 'ifconfig re0', I got almost the same output as before my twiddling, except that the 'inet' & inet6' lines were switched (inet before inet6 before twiddling, inet after inet6 after twiddling) .... Could that be the cause of my inability to access the modem & web ? TIA here also :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.