From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 18:13:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA13424 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA13419 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id KAA24001; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:42:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971007104257.21014@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:42:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wei Weng Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network setup References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Wei Weng on Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 09:46:34AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 09:46:34AM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: > hi. > I think I have set my network up this time. Cuz i can see it through > dmesg. But it doesn't seem to work. I tried /stand/sysinstall to config my > network, but it still doesn't change any settings. I have no clue that > what the network config file in freebsd is and how it looks like. So, > could anyone post their network config files here, so that i can read it > as reference? Or you can give me an example to do that. > Thanks in advance. Don't worry about the config files when looking for a problem; look at the system instead. The information you need is the output of 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn'. If you need help from us, the information we need is the same, and also the topology of your network (i.e. what are you trying to connect together, and how?). Greg