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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support [SOLVED] ifconfig mishap Post 302704829 by bakunin on Sunday 23rd of September 2012 04:22:52 PM

09-23-2012

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Have a look at some central services for the IP-address of the card you misconfigured: try "nslookup" from another system to query the DNS server (or analogous if you have NIS/NISplus) and have a look in "/etc/hosts" if you can retrieve the IP-address.

Then use "ifconfig" again to restore the correct IP-address.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

/edit: hold on - the IP address isn't misconfigured. I first read "10.10.10.10", but the IP is "10.10.10.20". confirm that it is the correct address, otherwise: see above.

What looks wrong is the broadcast-address and the subnetmask. According to the SNM the broadcast address belongs to a different subnet. Could you clarify which address/SNM/broadcast address there should be?

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