possible a bad NIC ?? i would imagine it is the NIC that is locking the system not ifconfig.
try changing NICs(both of them) nate On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michael Haarman wrote: mike >No, really. I am going unsane with this. mike > mike >The saga begins with an upgrade to potato and fresh 2.2.15 kernel mike >sources. I had hoped to support my wife's Windows VPN client through mike >a firewalling gateway by patching with jhardin's VPN-Masquerading kit. mike >Everything is going peachy, new kernel runs smooth, loads fast, sees mike >NetGear FA310TX NICs (two), tulip driver, IP_Masq mods loading; all mike >good. Come to this command: mike > mike ># ifconfig eth1 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up mike > mike >and the system locks. No response from keyboard, the three-finger mike >salute fails, must reset machine. mike > mike >I have compiled at least six fresh kernels, make clean each time, mike >mv-ing /lib/modules/x.x.xx before make modules_install, depmod -a, mike >update-modules. (Yes, I even remembered to run lilo.) I've compiled mike >NIC drivers as mods and monolithic. I blew away the sources and started mike >fresh without the patch. I even removed one of the NICs, though kernel mike >saw both on boot. Now I've got a clean 2.2.15 kernel with bare minimum mike >support for IP_Masq and drivers, machine runs linux only, no X, mike >minimum of services as befits a firewall. K5-100Mhz, 32Mb RAM, 850Mb mike >IDE hd, one NIC as above. mike > mike ># ifconfig mike > mike >--shows lo interface mike > mike ># ifconfig -a mike > mike >--shows lo and eth0 (no assigned address yet). It also showed both mike >cards at eth0 and eth1 when both were installed. mike > mike >Assigning an address to the ethernet interface brings down the whole mike >system. The ppp interface comes up without difficulty when called upon. mike > mike >I've read the last 50 messages in the list archive which mentioned mike >"ifconfig" and I've not seen a similar issue. mike > mike >Clues anyone? mike > mike > -- mike >----------------------------------------------------- mike >Michael Haarman "possum" mike >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mike >----------------------------------------------------- mike > mike > mike > mike >-- mike >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mike > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:08pm up 11 days, 20:35, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00