I got it corrected ,thanks for ur reply . shrikant
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "shrikant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 11:37 PM Subject: Re: Problem Binding IP address to the NIC ............. > "shrikant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was configuring the secondary IP address for my server , before doing any thing I always had a backup of the original running config Files so i had a backup of rc.conf . > > I added the secondary IP address to the rc.conf ,and gave a reboot for the secondary IP address to get activated . > > On reboot I was not able to connect the machine thru SSH as it used to before the configuration changes were made. > > Looking at this i went to my FreeBSD box physicaly and logged in to the root account , I then thought of replacing the original rc.conf as i was not able to figure out any problem .So did I . > > Then gave a reboot for the changes . > > Then tried to ping the machine from another machine on the same network ,but was not able to ping or SSH it . > > So i went back to the machine physically logged in and tried to ping other machines in the network,I was not able to ping . > > then I checked pinging the loopback address ,that too i was not able to ping. > > It seems that my IP address is not binding to the NIC card . > > > > Is there any solution for this . > > Please show the rc.conf file and the output output of ifconfig. > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"