Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 21:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface down and remove the ipaddr and mask? I've tried ifconfig destroy with no effect, and I'm getting tired of twiddling rc.conf and rebooting... The problem arises when testing a new

Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread freebsd
I tried delete, but it only works for *additional* ip addresses added using the alias command, not the original, primary one. I can't remember the error message. Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 21:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface

Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:14:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface down and remove the ipaddr and mask? I've tried ifconfig destroy with no effect, and I'm getting tired of twiddling rc.conf and rebooting... Have you tried `ifconfig fxp0

Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread freebsd
I stand corrected. ifconfig interface delete did the job; destroy is what failed. Thanks. I tried delete, but it only works for *additional* ip addresses added using the alias command, not the original, primary one. I can't remember the error message. Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sun,

Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread Alexey Karguine
On 29.10.2007, at 7:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface down and remove the ipaddr and mask? I've tried ifconfig destroy with no effect, and I'm getting tired of twiddling rc.conf and rebooting... The problem arises when testing a new

Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried delete, but it only works for *additional* ip addresses added using the alias command, not the original, primary one. I can't remember the error message. Are you specifying the primary IP as an argument to delete? It works here for me with a primary IP ok: #

Re: ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-30 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:14:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface down and remove the ipaddr and mask? I've tried ifconfig destroy with no effect, and I'm getting tired of twiddling rc.conf and rebooting... The problem arises when testing

ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?

2007-10-29 Thread freebsd
running 6.1, Is there a way to bring an interface down and remove the ipaddr and mask? I've tried ifconfig destroy with no effect, and I'm getting tired of twiddling rc.conf and rebooting... The problem arises when testing a new configuration where an existing interface has an assigned ip addr,