From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 4:14:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB86137B419 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 04:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020404121405.RTPS21252.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@max> for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:14:05 +0000 Message-ID: <200204040714080289.0260AA46@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020404061930.11141.qmail@web12804.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020404061930.11141.qmail@web12804.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:14:08 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some newbie questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >3.while installation i missed out i suppose to give an >ip address to the ethernet interface.so i have to >always set it manually using ifconfig.how do i set it >once and for all. Remember, you can always run /stand/sysinstall again, even if you don't want to run the full installation. Just select the Configure opton and you can readjust lots of your paramters. It's like a better editor for your /etc/rc.conf. In your case, select Networking, then Interfaces and select your interface (in my case it is dc0). It will pop the window back up for all this information. When you're done, it will update the rc.conf for you. Now, it does this in a very simple fashion, just adding lines to the end, which override any previous lines. It is a good idea to go in and remove redundant lines every now and then, if you run /stand/sysinstall often. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message