I just made one of my 4.x remote servers inaccessible and just tested it on my 5.x laptop, and it does the same thing ... not sure if this is considered a 'desirable' effect, or a but ... but ... 'ifconfig <device> -alias' will wipe out all IPs on the device: mobile# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 00:0d:88:22:78:e4 media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP status: active mobile# ifconfig rl0 -alias mobile# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> ether 00:0d:88:22:78:e4 media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP status: active I was running a script that happened to pick up a 'zero length' IP (and I hadn't properly tested for it), so erased all the IPs configured on that device, instead of generating an error ... Checking the man page, if this *is* desired effect, a bit of a warning might be in order: " -alias Remove the network address specified. This would be used if you incorrectly specified an alias, or it was no longer needed. If you have incorrectly set an NS address having the side effect of specifying the host portion, removing all NS addresses will allow you to respecify the host portion." "Remove the network address specified.", to me, means that if one isn't specified, nothing should/would happen :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy_at_hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664Received on Fri Nov 05 2004 - 20:52:20 UTC
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