05-30-2005, 10:42 AM

So I was playing around with the ifconfig command (probably not a smart thing to do when you don't know what you are doing) and I did something really stupid
%sudo ifconfig en1 10.0.1.1

from then on I haven't been able to communicate with my airport wireless router.

Any suggestions?

05-30-2005, 06:53 PM

use the sys prefs to change it back as im not too sure what that will have done, cant be certain but it might have set you en1 interface to 10.0.1.1?

05-30-2005, 11:16 PM

You have use the command to change the ip address for en1. I believe if you reboot your system you should be back to normal.

05-30-2005, 11:54 PM

NAME
ifconfig - configure network interface parameters

SYNOPSIS
ifconfig [-L] [-m] interface [create] [address_family]
[address[/prefixlength] [dest_address]] [parameters]
ifconfig interface destroy
ifconfig -a [-L] [-d] [-m] [-u] [address_family]
ifconfig -l [-d] [-u] [address_family]
ifconfig [-L] [-d] [-m] [-u]

DESCRIPTION
Ifconfig is used to assign an address to a network interface and/or con-
figure network interface parameters. Ifconfig must be used at boot time
to define the network address of each interface present on a machine; it
may also be used at a later time to redefine an interface's address or
other operating parameters.

The following options are available:
address
For the DARPA-Internet family, the address is either a host name
present in the host name data base, hosts(5), or a DARPA Internet
address expressed in the Internet standard ``dot notation''.

It is also possible to use the CIDR notation (also known as the
slash notation) to include the netmask. That is, one can specify
an address like 192.168.0.1/16.

address_family
Specify the address family which affects interpretation of the
remaining parameters. Since an interface can receive transmis-
sions in differing protocols with different naming schemes, spec-
ifying the address family is recommended. The address or proto-
col families currently supported are ``inet'', ``inet6'',

dest_address
Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end of a
point to point link.
there is more, but this is likely beyond what's needed

05-31-2005, 11:35 AM

Rebooting is always an option - tried that, no luck.

And I had read the manual thing before but I still don't get what that command would cause...

05-31-2005, 12:31 PM

Okay, now we need some more information. How are you connecting to the internet?

Here is what comes to mind, run the system preferences application -> network or under the Apple menu bring up the network preferences. I am not near my Apple system at this time so I am not sure of the menu names. Once you are in the network tool, be sure that DHCP is turn on. Hopefully you can override your changes there.