ifconfig -- how to remove address and mask?
Yuri Pankov
yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 19:15:44 PDT 2007
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 21:14 -0700, freebsd at dreamchaser.org 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 configuration where an existing
> interface has an assigned ip addr, and is then changed to be used with
> pppoe. The routine tables get really confused...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
Try ifconfig <interface> delete.
HTH,
Yuri
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