From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 21: 2:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31E437B433 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g37DPZm00544; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 09:25:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3CB049F3.7040708@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 09:30:27 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kim Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking References: <000001c1de32$f9462760$0301a8c0@blablasilxhh3h> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Kim wrote: >Hi there! >I´m quite new on FreeBSD and have installed FreeBSD 4.5 (X-USER) >I´ve recently tried out NetBSD and was a bit frightend, but thought trie >FreeBSD first before returning to Linux. > >Now i have some questions. > >I was looking for some place to configure my network device. > >1. In what file should i conf the network? > You can configure it from /stand/sysinstall if you like, but if you want to do it manually (which is good, you learn more that way) you want to edit /etc/rc.conf. Look specifically at the network_interfaces= parameter and corresponding ifconfig_xx#= parameters. The man page for rc.conf is excellent in its explanation of these (and other) settings. You can also use /stand/sysinstal and then look in /etc/rc.conf to see what it added, which is a pretty good way to learn. > >2. Where do i find the config for resolving hosts(DNS)?? > If you just want to point it at a nameserver, /etc/resolv.conf and put in your nameservers like this: nameserver 65.168.0.12 nameserver 65.168.0.2 If you want to set up a DNS cache, the files are in /etc/namedb, but explaining how to do that is a bit beyond what I'm willing to type this morning. See the docs. > >3. How do i make an update to the newer snapshot 5.0 version of >FreeBSD(my network device not compatible with the install >kernel)?? > Read the handbook section on cvsup, also read the handbook section on -STABLE vs. -CURRENT. If you're not familiar with FreeBSD you probably don't want a 5.0-CURRENT machine, that's the development branch. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > >In my first look of the operating system i can only say: I like it.. =) >Much easier than NetBSD.. > >Greetings > >/Kim, dumb Swede.. =) > > > > >[Quote: Linus Torvalds - Aug 27, 2000 - linux-kernel mailing list] >"And I'm right. I'm always right, but in this case I'm just a bit more >right than I usually am." -- Linus Torvalds > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message