Just a thought, but is this new IP address in the same network space.
What about the gateway? If your address changed from, say
172.16.163.25 to 172.16.164.37 and your netmask is 255.255.255.0 you
would have moved onto a different class C network (the class C CIDR
block 172.16.0.0 thru 172.16.255.0 are private network space, but thats
irrelevant to the example). If it was that kind of an address change,
then you will need to specify a different gateway, and you'll need to
contact your network manager, ISP, or which ever, and find out what the
address is.
Assuming we're not dealing with variable length subnetting, the basic
rule of thumb is this: Look at your network mask and count the number
of octets left to right that are '255' or 'ff' (255 in hex). Your
gateway UIP address must be identical to your machine's IP address for
the same number of octets, or I guarantee you that the gateway is wrong.
-- Rob
--On 09/20/00 10:09:15 AM -0700 Stephen King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I try and change my IP address on my NIC. It stops working. Yes,
> I reboot and its says it boots up correctly but when I try and ping
> something I get nothing, network unreachable. But I can ping myself.
> I go into the linuxconf and look around in the client information.
> Nothing has changed except the IP then even if I change it back it
> won't work correctly. The NIC is a 3C900-TPO.
> Any suggestions? Ideas?
>
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