ifconfig -alias - removed wrong ip ?

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, claudiu vasadi <claudiu.vasadi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
>
> I have a 7.2-stable Freebsd running on a 2.66 Ghz 478 socket mobo with 1 GB
> DDR1 ram.
>
> I added another ip on my rl0 interface, brought it up, everything was fine
> (until i screwed it up :( ). I wanted then to remove the alias IP but i
> wrote a wrong command (ifconfig rl0 -alias) and since then I have no access
> to the box. I then turned to my vmware FreeBSD to reproduce the situation
> and I was stuned to find out that that command I wrote, removes the
> "normal"
> IP and not the alias one. OK, normaly (I think) i should be able to connect
> to the alias IP..... well, It's not the case
>
>
> 2 things here:
>
> 1.) Is it normal for the ifconfig rl0 -alias to remove the "normal" IP and
> not the alias one ? (I think that by this syntax it could be right but the
> parameter "-alias" is specified and the OS should know to remove the alias
> IP and not the normal IP)
>
Yes

> 2) I dnt really understand why am I not able to connect to the second
> (alias) ip? It seems that somehow it's dependant to the "normal" one
>
Yup, you need to re-init networking to regain access.

>
>
> I must say I was not really reading the handbook for the 2nd point here....
> will do it now though
>
>
>
> PS: box is 3 countryes away from me so manual intervention is out of the
> question (although I have some sort of online-suport (If my 73 years old
> grandmother can be called that :)) ) )
>
probably easiest thing to do is have her reboot.  Of course you can also
have her type

/etc/rc.d/netif restart

assuming your /etc/rc.conf is set correctly.


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Adam Vande More