From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 14:17:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEC516A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A75D43D3F for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i34LH3vp064040; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i34LH3A6065663; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:17:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i34LH04t065654; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:17:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Simon Barner Message-ID: <20040404211700.GB52465@tao.thought.org> References: <20040401173032.GA16568@tao.thought.org> <20040404201736.GC44569@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040404201736.GC44569@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: NIC question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:17:09 -0000 On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 10:17:36PM +0200, Simon Barner wrote: > > device pcn # AMD Am79C79x PCI 10/100 NICs > > > > In the new DNS server I'm building, is the following ifconfig > > line correct for the first AMD NIC: > > > > ifconfig_pcn0="inet 216.231.43.140 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > Yes, that looks good (if the ip address and the netmask are correct ;-) > > Be sure to either recompile your kernel with the following options > > device miibus > device pcn > > or to load the module version of the driver: if_pcn.ko > > For more options of that NIC driver, you can have a look at its man > page: pcn(4). > Thanks very much. I just found the GENERIC kernel file; yup, both devices are in by default. (It makes sense to me at least to have just about every dev in by default. If somebody wanted less functionality, trimming back could be a "fine-tune" option. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix