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Old 29th July 2008
BSDfan666 BSDfan666 is offline
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There are some possibilities:
  • Your colleague made a mistake entering the command..
  • You didn't give the colleague the right command... 192.168.168.x doesn't look very right.
  • rl0 isn't the correct interface..

We honestly can't diagnose problems like this... have you ever played that game where people pass the phrase? eventually it becomes scrambled/unintelligible.

Instead of changing the IP address of the interface, why don't you ask your colleague to determine the *new* IP assigned by DHCP. (If it's a server, it shouldn't be dynamic...).

Now, I assume you're on the same LAN as this system.. why can't you physically go check the state of the machine? or are you attempting to access a machine over the internet via a private IP?

Last edited by BSDfan666; 29th July 2008 at 02:15 PM.
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