On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 14:13:16 +0000, "Peter J. Schoenster"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The last time they did this I had to enter this command:
>
>ifconfig [ip address] ...and some other stuff like netmask ..
>
>Well I did that again but it didn't work for me as it did before. I
>EXPERIMENTED. Dangerous. Nothing. I thought, this is nuts; we
>should just have the ISP do this.
ifconfig is a unix command which defines the ip addresses and all the
attributes (broadcast, netmast, etc) of the ip address.
You could bring down your server by putting in the wrong thing. The
easiest thing way is to reference the interface and use the command
"down", but if you change the netmask or some of the other paramaters
it can go down too.
This is best started automagically in a startup script.
In RH linux the first IP address is controlled by flat files in
/etc/sysconfig and subdirectories of that. I start my other ip
addresses in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Let them, or someone who knows how it works set it up for you next
time.
To determin if you did it...
You might check the log (possibly /var/log/messages) for that day and
see when you were telnetted in, then check your web server log and see
when it stopped getting hits.
-- Ed Weinberg,
Detel, Inc., An Internet Presence Provider
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