[SOLVED] ifconfig mishap

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09-24-2012

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A reboot is not required, just restarting the network service would do just fine, provided, the correct IP, Sub-mask, etc. were made persistent.

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svcadm restart network/physical

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Thanks to all for your kind response and extreme sorry for delay in reply from my side.

Rebooting the server solved the problem. It reverted all the old configuration.

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