From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 19:36:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7888337B51F for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20852; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:36:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA02720; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: dmp@aracnet.com (Darren Pilgrim) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A very strange problem when changing IPs Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 02:30:48 GMT Message-ID: <3994b69e.54802371@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 2000 19:01:13 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Nothing I tried would get the server to start responding again. So, I >changed the ifconfig_de0 line in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted. After the >restart the server was responsive on both interfaces with de0 set >to a.b.c.9! This makes absolutely no sense to me at all. Why would I >have to reboot to make this change? > Routing and arp entries perhaps. Its hard to say without knowing what values you are using, and what is connected to the box. ---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