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Old 7th August 2010
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Originally Posted by leon View Post
...when i want to reassign the IP

#ifconfig bce inet 192.168.1.233 netmask 255.255.255.0
I can only assume that "bce" above is a typo. Given other information presented, this should be "bce0".

It also is not clear from the information provided whether 192.168.1.233 had been the IP address provided by your ISP's DHCP server, or how you decided it use this particular private address. My guess is that this had been previously supplied by DHCP. If so, this may account for the following:
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it takes forever to log in thru ssh...
...which is frequently the tell-tale sign that DNS is confused. Section 8.22 of the FAQ covers this situation in more detail.

At this point, we simply don't have enough information to figure out what is going on. If you can help clarify the configuration, we may be able to help solve it.
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