Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:33:40 -0400
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To: Kahn@deadbbs.com ("Erin")
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Adding an IP alias without a reboot.
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On 17 Oct 2000 14:20:46 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I have a production machine whos IP is going to change. I have to add an >aliased IP to it for a while from a completely different subnet then by the >middle of next month have everything changed over (i.e. defaultrouter, dns >servers, etc.). I'd like to do this with out rebooting the machine if >possable. lets say its fxp0, old address is 192.168.1.1/24, new address is 172.16.20.1/25 ifconfig fxp0 172.16.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 alias later.... ifconfig fxp0 172.16.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 -alias ifconfig fxp0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 -delete arp -da route delete 192.168.1.0/24 ifconfig fxp0 172.16.20.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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