Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> From: Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:19:42 -0400
>> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> Howdy list,
>> 
>> I'm having major problems with the route command today.
>> My machine is an IBM Thinkpad A30p laptop, running FreeBSD
>> 5.1-RELEASE.
>> 
>> I have two interfaces. wi0 and fxp0
>> 
>> Normally, if I want to swap from wi0 to fxp0, all I
>> have to do is:
>> 
>> killall dhclient
>> ifconfig wi0 down
>> ifconfig fxp0 up
>> dhclient fxp0
>> 
>> And I'm done. However, ocassionally this backfires,
>> like it did today:
> 
> Jesse,
> 
> Try changing your list of commands to:
> killall dhclient
> ifconfig wi0 down
> route flush
> ifconfig fxp0 up
> dhclient fxp0
> 
> That should fix it up.

Sorry for neglecting to mention it, but I did that, multiple times,
in multiple places.

I _didn't_ do it the FIRST time, but I did do multiple times after
that.

Perhaps I should do it the first time, from now on? Would that
prevent the problem?

-- 
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
423-559-LINK (v)  423-559-5145 (f)
http://www.wingnet.net


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