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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 10/23/14 10:45, Cristiano Deana wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:24 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I changed the settings in rc.conf & networks & did an 'infonfig re0 down/up'
>> & nothing has changed :-/ ....
> I think what you are looking for is:
>
> /etc/rc.d/netif restart # be carefull it will restart all your nics,
> loosing your actual connection
>
>

Thx, I got past this by overcoming my ingrained linuxisms & correctly 
using the ifconfig command to reset the netmask :-/ .... I'm off to 
other problems .... Thx again ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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