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

[Bob Nance]

The error message is telling you that “address” is not a value. Try:

# ifconfig re0 inet 192.168.111.27

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  Bob Nance
  Novation Systems
  bob.nance at novationsys.com
  256-534-4620

On Oct 24, 2014, at 9:16 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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 ....
> 
> 
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> 
> 	William A. Mahaffey III
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