From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 22:31:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA19280 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 15183 invoked from network); 2 Feb 1999 06:31:09 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 1999 06:31:09 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990201222841.00a6bc60@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:31:05 -0800 To: Larry Orchier , "freebsd-questions" From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Need to Change IP Address In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:03 PM 2/1/99 , Larry Orchier wrote: >I have just inherited a server that has been relocated from CA to NY > >All that I need to do is to change the IP address of the machine, gateway, >and name servers > >How can I do this? I have been unable to find directions on any of the >webpages. First of all, don't send two copies of the same message six minutes apart. The IP address for the network interface is set in /etc/rc.conf. However, there are probably a lot of configuration files which refer to the old IP, so a "grep OLDIP /etc/*" and "grep OLDIP /usr/local/etc/*" would probably find a large portion of those files that need changing. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message