[dawho9]

Can anyone help me out. I need to change the IP address of my MacOSX box - however the only access I have is via SSH right now.

How can I change it from the terminal?

dw9

[leffo]

You should use ifconfig. I think what you should do is:

Code:
ifconfig en0 <new IP-address>

but check the man-page to be sure.

[Camelot]

Originally posted by leffo:
You should use ifconfig. I think what you should do is:

Code:
ifconfig en0 <new IP-address>

To be safe, you should probably alias the new IP address first:

sudo ifconfig en0 <ip ip> alias

so that the Mac takes it on as a second IP address. You can then connect to that new IP address to make sure it's working, and delete the original address.

If you don't do that, and you make a mistake, you'll lose your ssh connection and won't be able to reconnect.

Note also that this command will only change the current IP address. When you reboot the machine will revert to the IP address assigned in System Preferences.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by Camelot:
To be safe, you should probably alias the new IP address first:

sudo ifconfig en0 <ip ip> alias

so that the Mac takes it on as a second IP address. You can then connect to that new IP address to make sure it's working, and delete the original address.

If you don't do that, and you make a mistake, you'll lose your ssh connection and won't be able to reconnect.

Note also that this command will only change the current IP address. When you reboot the machine will revert to the IP address assigned in System Preferences.

Oooh, nice to know. If I ever need to do this I'll make sure to check the man page for ifconfig. Thanks, Camelot.