Cassandra uses the IP address for more or less everything. It's possible to change it through some hackery however probably not a great idea. The nodes system tables will still reference the old IP which is likely your problem here.
On 14 March 2017 at 18:58, George Sigletos <sigle...@textkernel.nl> wrote: > To give a complete picture, my node has actually two network interfaces: > eth0 for 192.168.xx.xx and eth1 for 10.179.xx.xx > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:46 PM, George Sigletos <sigle...@textkernel.nl> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to change the IP of a live node (I am not replacing a dead >> one). >> >> So I stop the service on my node (not a seed node), I change the IP from >> 192.168.xx.xx to 10.179.xx.xx, and modify "listen_address" and >> "rpc_address" in the cassandra.yaml, while I also set auto_bootstrap: >> false. Then I restart but it fails to see the rest of the cluster: >> >> Datacenter: DC1 >> =============== >> Status=Up/Down >> |/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving >> -- Address Load Tokens Owns Host >> ID Rack >> DN 192.168.xx.xx ? 256 ? >> 241f3002-8f89-4433-a521-4fa4b070b704 r1 >> UN 10.179.xx.xx 3.45 TB 256 ? >> 3b07df3b-683b-4e2d-b307-3c48190c8f1c RAC1 >> DN 192.168.xx.xx ? 256 ? >> 19636f1e-9417-4354-8364-6617b8d3d20b r1 >> DN 192.168.xx.xx ? 256 ? >> 9c65c71c-f5dd-4267-af9e-a20881cf3d48 r1 >> DN 192.168.xx.xx ? 256 ? >> ee75219f-0f2c-4be0-bd6d-038315212728 r1 >> >> Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks in advance >> >> Kind regards, >> George >> > >