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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:01:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        doug@bigwheel.net (Doug Jolley)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Configuring Networking
Message-ID:  <199708011901.OAA08695@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <199708011701.KAA15080@neptune.neptune.net> from Doug Jolley at "Aug 1, 97 10:01:16 am"

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in /etc/rc.conf set:
network_interfaces="lo0 your-ethernet"
ifconfig_your-ethernet=inet ip-addr netmask 255.255.x.x"


In a previous message, Doug Jolley said:
> Hi --
> 
> I'm trying to setup networking on FreeBSD 2.2.2.  I've compiled
> the kernel so that it recognizes my ethernet card, set the
> hostname in /etc/rc.conf, and configured the /etc/hosts file.
> 
> I can ping localhost just fine; but, when I go to ping the IP
> address of the host I get:
> 
>      ping: sendto: No route to host
> 
> I'm assuming that there's at least one thing I haven't done that
> I should have.  Is there some documentation describing the steps
> I should be following?  If not, could someone fill me in (assuming
> that's not a huge job).
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> 
>      ... doug
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Doug Jolley    mailto://doug@bigwheel.net     http://www.bigwheel.net
>          Don't bogart that file, my friend.  Net it over to me.
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> 


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