From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 19 16:36:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4614B1198A for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990220003652.CRXZ682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:36:52 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Chris Hill Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:36:46 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Stupid networking question - dynamic IP Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990220003652.CRXZ682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Feb 99, at 19:12, Chris Hill wrote: > The local cable TV company will be offering "cable modem" service here > soon, with the promise of enormously faster speeds. The cable modem > connects via 10baseT ethernet. However, they do not offer static IP > addresses. > > Question: is it possible to configure an ethernet card to use a > server-assigned IP address? "Man ifconfig" doesn't mention this topic at > all. > > BTW, I'm running 2.2.7-RELEASE and my current card uses the ed device. I'd > need a second card if I were to do this. Yes, it is. Look at my website under topics. You'll find how to add ed1 and how to install DHCP. That's what you want. However, you may want the latest DHCP, which I don't think I used. good luck! -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message