Re: Removing aliases removes primary IP

Thanks Pietro! Somehow the man-page for ifconfig is confusing In the examples: quote Add the IPv6 address 2001:DB8:DBDB::123/48 to the interface em0: # ifconfig em0 inet6 2001:db8:bdbd::123 prefixlen 48 alias Note that lower case hexadecimal IPv6 addresses are acceptable.

Removing aliases removes primary IP

Dear all, Today I removed all aliases on my internal NIC and loopback, which resulted in losing the primary ip-address. What am I missing! rc.conf ifconfig_xl0=inet 172.17.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_xl0_alias0=inet 172.17.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_xl0_alias1=inet 172.17.2.4

Re: Removing aliases removes primary IP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Spil Oss wrote: | Dear all, | | Today I removed all aliases on my internal NIC and loopback, which | resulted in losing the primary ip-address. What am I missing! | | # ifconfig xl0 alias 172.17.2.3 delete | # ifconfig xl0 alias 172.17.2.4 delete

Re: Removing aliases removes primary IP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | 2) you remove an alias which the 'delete' argument. Since you don't | specify which alias to be removed, the lowest IP number is removed. In | your case, the lowest IP number happens to be your primary :-) Maybe someone