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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 15:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Shen Jing <sj@china.pages.com.cn>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:A newbies quesiton , further investigation and thanks 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519154637.11841l-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <356119C0.354A@china.pages.com.cn>

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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Shen Jing wrote:

>     Now I just has one problem , that I can not use my ethernet card .
> 
>     I have tried to change the IRQ of it , change to ed0 , but it can
> not work . because I am a total new comer of FreeBSD , I have too
> little  knowlege about it . so , I am not sure weather I have do exactly
> as you told me . 

Okay.  What brand/model of Ethernet card do you have?  That should solve
lots of questions right there.

>     Well , Mr. Mark Turpin told me that I should add a default gateway
> to make use of our office router , I don't know how to add it . 

Use the command

route add default xx.yy.zz.qq

where xx.yy.zz.qq is the IP address of your gateway. If you don't know
what your gateway is then ask your network administrator.

>     I remember that I have config a  gateway when I config the Network
> Interface ,  I am not sure wether Mr mark refers to this ? Are there a
> file called  defaultrouter  in FreeBSD ?   

There is a configuration file entry called defaultrouter.  See
/etc/rc.conf.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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