[OpenAFS] How to cleanly remove a 2nd eth address from a file server

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> Not what I meant... Getting rid of the ip addr on the server is easy
> (ifconfig eth0:0 down) - the problem is that all that clients are still
> trying to use that IP, and are waiting for timeouts to lose contact with the
> server.
> 
> Is there some straightforward way to get the clients to switch to the other
> address?

Yes.  Restart the fileserver, so it reregisters with the VLDB.  That will
get the VLDB to stop telling clients about the address that isn't up.