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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar <ramkumar@iastate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD
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On 2008-01-28 22:33, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar <ramkumar@iastate.edu> wrote:
> Giorgos,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the excellent reply, yes I do have some questions about
> this but before that:
> 
> the unplumb operation for pilp0 doesnt work.
> 
> ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument
> 
> is the message I get for this.

Ok, it should be sufficient to delete the assigned address from plip0:

	# ifconfig plip0 down
	# ifconfig plip0 delete

Sorry for that; I don't use plip these days, and I couldn't test it :/