From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 21:15: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E99E37B403 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B430818D7; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A5818D6; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Charley Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Is it assumed that I know this? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Moved to -questions where it belongs. > Host: Domain: Do you have a domain name? Ie: www.whatever.com? Don't make something up, if nothing else leave it blank. > IPv4 Gateway: Name server: This is the IP address of your Name Server or DNS server. It's going to be at your ISP's location. > IPv4 Address: Netmask: Usually but not always, 255.255.255.0 :) > Extra options to ifconfig: Leave this blank. If you don't know what to type there, you don't need it. :) > I ask my Internet Service Provider for these names and numbers but he just > said > "You don't need those for anything, what's FreeBSD anyway?" Your ISP is providing DHCP. I'd suggest that you answer yes to the question "Use DHCP." (It might fail though depending on your configuration.) If they're not going to give you the IP address you need if that dosen't work... it's time to start shopping for a new ISP. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message