From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 11:08:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51D437B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 11:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D088543F75 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 11:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003052018080200100qr085e>; Tue, 20 May 2003 18:08:02 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h4KI81Yt006875; Tue, 20 May 2003 14:08:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h4KI7vSs006872; Tue, 20 May 2003 14:07:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: "shrikant" References: <001301c31e0c$f0931e00$1500000a@windomain> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 May 2003 14:07:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <001301c31e0c$f0931e00$1500000a@windomain> Message-ID: <44fzn9lceb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Binding IP address to the NIC ............. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:08:03 -0000 "shrikant" writes: > I was configuring the secondary IP address for my server , before doing any thing I always had a backup of the original running config Files so i had a backup of rc.conf . > I added the secondary IP address to the rc.conf ,and gave a reboot for the secondary IP address to get activated . > On reboot I was not able to connect the machine thru SSH as it used to before the configuration changes were made. > Looking at this i went to my FreeBSD box physicaly and logged in to the root account , I then thought of replacing the original rc.conf as i was not able to figure out any problem .So did I . > Then gave a reboot for the changes . > Then tried to ping the machine from another machine on the same network ,but was not able to ping or SSH it . > So i went back to the machine physically logged in and tried to ping other machines in the network,I was not able to ping . > then I checked pinging the loopback address ,that too i was not able to ping. > It seems that my IP address is not binding to the NIC card . > > Is there any solution for this . Please show the rc.conf file and the output output of ifconfig.