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<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: llouhevlyy@hotmail.com<br>To: adam@akarsoft.com<br>Subject: RE: misconfigured network card<br>Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:26 +0100<br><br>
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<br><br><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">I wrote:<br><br>«Greetings:<br><br>I recently had a hard drive failure on a remote
machine and had to reinstall OpenBSD 4.2. When copying the files over
from my backup drive (backed up every evening) I somehow misconfigured
my network card and now I can't even ping to the server. Using an LVM
monitor I can see that all is well, but it's impossible for me to
connect.<br><br>Can anyone offer any suggestions?»<br><br>Adam answered:<br><br>>From: adam@akarsoft.com<br><br><div>>Can you post the hostname.if file? <br><br>$ less /etc/hostname.rl0<br>inet 69.94.110.70 255.255.248.0 NONE<br><br>>Also, the output of $(netstat -arn). <br><br>$ netstat -arn<br>Routing tables<br><br>Internet:<br>Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface<br>default 69.94.104.1 UGS 38 8462842 - rl0<br>69.94.104/21 link#1 UC 3 0 - rl0<br>69.94.104.1 00:00:0c:07:ac:d5 UHLc 2 0 - rl0<br>69.94.104.3 00:17:e0:f9:ba:3f UHLc 0 0 - rl0<br>69.94.110.70 00:15:58:be:b1:6c UHLc 0 4600 - lo0<br>127/8 127.0.0.1 UGRS 0 0 33208 lo0<br>127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 611858 33208 lo0<br>208.98.1.156 69.94.104.1 UGHD 0 8457558 - L rl0<br>224/4 127.0.0.1 URS 0 0 33208 lo0<br><br>Internet6:<br>Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interfac<br>e<br>::/104 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>::/96 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>::1 ::1 UH 14 135213 33208 lo0<br>::127.0.0.0/104 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>::224.0.0.0/100 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>::255.0.0.0/104 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>2002::/24 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>2002:7f00::/24 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>2002:e000::/20 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>2002:ff00::/24 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>fe80::/10 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>fe80::%rl0/64 link#1 UC 0 0 - rl0<br>fe80::215:58ff:febe:b16c%rl0 00:15:58:be:b1:6c UHL 0 0 - lo0<br>fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 U 0 0 - lo0<br>fe80::1%lo0 link#3 UHL 0 0 - lo0<br>fec0::/10 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>ff01::/16 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>ff01::%rl0/32 link#1 UC 0 0 - rl0<br>ff01::%lo0/32 ::1 UC 0 0 - lo0<br>ff02::/16 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0<br>ff02::%rl0/32 link#1 UC 0 0 - rl0<br>ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UC 0 0 - lo0<br>$<br><br><br>My apologies for not having responded sooner, but I've been desperately trying to remount this server. It seems that simply by copying the entire contents of /usr/local/bin from the backup drive to the main drive, I rendered my box unconnectable. It would boot, and I could see that it was up, but I couldn't even ping it.<br><br>Now everything is back to normal, and the netstat reading above is from the properly running machine. I also now know better than to indiscriminately copy files from the backup drive to the main drive. But I am really curious to know what it was I did to incapicitate my network card.<br><br>The folks where I rent my dedicated server were kind and helpful, but unfortunately unfamiliar with OpenBSD.<br><br>Thanks again.<br><br>Lou<br><br><div>---</div><div>D. Adam Karim</div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Popcorn Crispeta <<a href="mailto:llouhevlyy@hotmail.com">llouhevlyy@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote><div>
Greetings:<br><br>I recently had a hard drive failure on a remote machine and had to reinstall OpenBSD 4.2. When copying the files over from my backup drive (backed up every evening) I somehow misconfigured my network card and now I can't even ping to the server. Using an LVM monitor I can see that all is well, but it's impossible for me to connect.<br><br>Can anyone offer any suggestions?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><br><hr>Explore the seven wonders of the world <a href="http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE">Learn more!</a>
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