Change IP of interface M1 on Avaya ASBCE

[westboy1]

Hi All

Does anyone know of a way to change the IP address of the M1 interface on a Avaya ASBCE, this device is setup as a stand alone ASBCE and not setup in in High Availability

The only documentation I have seen details how to do this for an ASBCE setup in High Availability and this results in a factory reset which I do not want to do as per the link below. This document does point to another procedure for a stand alone ASBCE and references solution number 241349 but the link is broken or the original page has been removed. Procedure to change M1 interface-IP for ASBCE in High Availability

Alternatievly would it be possible to change the IP Address using ifconfig with a console connection.

It is not possible to do this through the managment GUI.

Many Thanks

 

[tlpeter]

M1 is eth5 and i think it is just Linux.
Try this:

type system-config-network and go to eth5 and just change it.
Or you could try this:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
Then you need to make it permanent by editing the eth5 config file.
For CentOS you do this by editing the file located here:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/


BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[westboy1]

Hi tlpeter

Yes ifconfig shows that M1 is eth5.

The command type system-config-network displays command not found, if I look at /etc/network/interfaces it does not list the current settings for eth5, it only lists eth0 and all lines are commented out. There is also no directory /etc/sysconfig on the device.

Would really appreciate if anyone else has any ideas.

Thanks

 

[tlpeter]

Hmmm, then it is not redhat/Centos based.

What happens if you do an ifconfig eth5?


BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[westboy1]

Hi

If I run lsb_release -irc I get the below, this appears to be a MontaVista Linux distribution.
Distributor ID: MontaVista
Release: 5.0
Codename: 0704580

If I run ifconfig eth5 I get the below.
eth5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:FB:48:9D:77
inet addr:192.168.20.7 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:fbff:fe48:9d77/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5308942 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:346587637 (330.5 MiB) TX bytes:10953100 (10.4 MiB)
Interrupt:23 Memory:febe0000-fec00000

 

[shardian]

I've tried changing one before. Can't remember what I did exactly as it was some time ago.
It would change and work for a while, but then when I did a reboot, it would revert to what it was originally setup as.

I tried looking in various locations for a config file that might be causing it to revert, but I was unable to find anything. In the end, I just stuck the USB key in the back and booted from that. Reinstalled everything and just reconfigured the unit. Ended up being faster than all the mucking around I did trying to change the address.