tech@ is the wrong mailing list. moved to m...@. On 2009/01/14 17:52, Ramon F. McDougall wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > Thanks again for all for your input. I took a chance and ran vi on > > /etc/hostname.vr1 and overwrote the file with: > > inet 206.56.121.224 255.255.255.0 NONE but it did not work. I continued > searching and found an obscure link which I can't find again but it went > something like this. > > # ifconfig 205.56.121.224 255.255.255.0 NONE up
this syntax is for hostname.* files, it is incorrect syntax for ifconfig. > Then > > # echo inet 192.168.1.64 255.255.0.0 NONE > /etc/hostname.vr1 > > After doing this I rebooted to make sure everything reset, upon reboot I was > able to ping the three interfaces. > > I thought that echo was only to display characters on the screen. Where is > the magic of that command? please read some introductory material to unix and the shell. > Many thanks to all! > > Kind Regards, > > Ramon > > -----Original Message----- > From: patrick keshishian [mailto:pkesh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:44 PM > To: Ramon F. McDougall > Cc: t...@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Adding a third NIC to openBSD 4.4 > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Ramon F. McDougall > <r...@hyteksolutions.com> wrote: > > I just noticed that the NIC that is not working has an extraneous # sign > at > > line's end. When I view this file with the editor it does not show up. I > > think that's why it's not working. Your suggestions are greatly > appreciated. > [...] > > # cat /etc/hostname.vr0 > > inet 206.56.121.223 255.255.255.0 NONE > > # cat /etc/hostname.vr1 > > inet 206.56.121.224 255.255.255.0 NONE# > > # cat /etc/hostname.sis0 > > inet 206.56.121.222 255.255.255.0 NONE > > are you sure it has a '#' or that it is missing the newline? I bet the > # is your prompt after cat command is finished. > > 'hexdump -C /etc/hostname.vr1' to be sure. > > --patrick
