[LUNA] Issues trying to reset NIC IP address w/ ifconfig ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

I am having issues trying to reset the IP address of the (onboard) NIC 
under FBSD 9.3-p2:


[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:07:22am] 506 % ifconfig  re0
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
         ether d0:50:99:13:e3:85
         inet 192.168.0.27 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 192.168.255.255
         inet6 fe80::d250:99ff:fe13:e385%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:07:28am] 507 % ifconfig re0 down
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:11:16am] 508 % ifconfig re0
re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
         ether d0:50:99:13:e3:85
         inet 192.168.0.27 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 192.168.255.255
         inet6 fe80::d250:99ff:fe13:e385%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:11:19am] 509 % ifconfig re0 inet address 
192.168.111.27 up
ifconfig: address: bad value
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:11:39am] 510 % ifconfig re0
re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
         ether d0:50:99:13:e3:85
         inet 192.168.0.27 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 192.168.255.255
         inet6 fe80::d250:99ff:fe13:e385%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:11:42am] 511 % ifconfig re0  up
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:11:50am] 512 % uname -a
FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Sep 
15 16:44:27 UTC 2014 
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:13:03am] 513 %

I used ifconfig to reset the netmask yesterday successfully, just can't 
get the address to change. I need to (temporarily) change the address to 
setup a newly acquired WatchGuard FireBox Edge firewall appliance, which 
apparently requires the addressing computer to be on the same (rather 
restricted) subnet. Any help appreciated :-) .... TIA ....


-- 

	William A. Mahaffey III

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.