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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 10/24/14 09:48, Bob Nance wrote:
> The error message is telling you that “address” is not a value. Try:
>
> # ifconfig re0 inet 192.168.111.27
>
> ---
>    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 ....
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> 	William A. Mahaffey III
>>
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*Bingo* !!!! We have a winner :-) .... The manpage seemed to imply that 
the word 'address' was in fact required :-/ .... Thx !!!!

-- 

	William A. Mahaffey III

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