From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 02:39:44 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 5F6E037B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c009.snv.cp.net (h019.c009.snv.cp.net [209.228.34.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3E9143FA3 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shrikant@corp.123india.com) Received: (cpmta 26337 invoked from network); 28 May 2003 02:39:42 -0700 Received: from 203.115.113.14 (HELO network) by smtp.corp.123india.com (209.228.34.132) with SMTP; 28 May 2003 02:39:42 -0700 X-Sent: 28 May 2003 09:39:42 GMT Message-ID: <001101c324fc$226e5340$1500000a@windomain> From: "shrikant" To: References: <001301c31e0c$f0931e00$1500000a@windomain> <44fzn9lceb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:02:58 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Subject: Re: Problem Binding IP address to the NIC ............. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:39:44 -0000 I got it corrected ,thanks for ur reply . shrikant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: "shrikant" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 11:37 PM Subject: Re: Problem Binding IP address to the NIC ............. > "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. >