From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 16:49:03 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7D8673B for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:49:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.blackfoot.net (mx2.blackfoot.net [216.14.232.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "spam.blackfoot.net", Issuer "GeoTrust DV SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE8EFDA3 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:49:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blackfoot.vision.net ([216.220.3.42]) by mx2.blackfoot.net ({f463150a-8fc3-47f8-9d9f-72f34f8bb0de}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20141024164902762; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:49:02 +0000 X-RC-FROM: Received: from webmail.blackfoot.net (unknown [10.40.25.30]) (Authenticated sender: vagabond) by blackfoot.vision.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3A47975EE; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:49:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 66.109.141.62 (SquirrelMail authenticated user vagabond) by webmail.blackfoot.net with HTTP; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:49:01 -0600 Message-ID: <448a90293714a735714a65452e79295d.squirrel@webmail.blackfoot.net> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:49:01 -0600 Subject: Re: Noob ifconfig question :-/ ... From: "Gary Aitken" To: wam@hiwaay.net User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-MAG-OUTBOUND: blackfoot.redcondor.net@216.220.3.42/32 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:49:04 -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 .... A quick web search shows admin/admin > 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 :-/ .... That's because you changed the third digit of the ip address, and it is no longer in the same subnet as the rest of your network, which you just changed over to 192.168.111.27. If I understand what you said above correctly. All of the boxes have to reside on the same subnet, either 192.168.111.* or 192.168.0.*, in your scenario above.