Hi Tom

Is the NIC in question set to DHCP? According to the man page for vmadm its 
required unless the NIC is set up DHCP.

Thanks,
Dave

On 3 Apr 2014, at 11:50 am, Tom Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How can I update the nics on an active VM to remove the netmask? Do I have to 
> remove the entire nics
> array entry for the specific MAC address and then add it again?
> 
> I've been trying all sorts of silly stuff. None of it seems to remove the 
> netmask. Here's the latest
> attempt:
> 
> cat update-nic-ip.json
> {
>        "update_nics": [
>                {
>                "mac": "32:e0:8a:0f:98:99",
>                "remove_tags": ["netmask"]
>                }
>        ]
> }
> 
> # vmadm update <my-uuid> -f update-nic-ip.json
> Successfully updated VM <my-uuid>
> 
> But, alas, no change to the nic when I 'vmadm get' it again.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
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