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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:29:58 +0100
From: Richard Smith <rdls@rdls.net>
To: Stefan Beke <beke@minv.sk>
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Subject: Re: xl0 using (probably) wrong media
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:40:15AM +0200, Stefan Beke wrote:
> i'm new to FreeBSD, moving from Linux slowly( maybe once ;-)
> I have only 400MB space so I've installed 'minimal install' of FreeBSD4.3.
> For now I have 2 problems:
> NIC xl0 seems to be running, i can ping localhost and also my ip adress
> 10.*.*.* succesfully. But i can't ping gateway, which i'm sure is up
> running(can't ping anybody on my network to be clear).
> ifconfig shows me i'm also up and running...
> --> media : 10baseT/UTP
> but actually i'm using 10base2/BNC. Is this a problem, if yes how to change
> media? My minimal install doesn't even have man ifconfig.

Use the media parameter with ifconfig. See man ifconfig(8), and man xl(4) for 
valid media types. e.g. you might use something like this in your /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_xl0="inet 10.*.*.* netmask 0xffffff00 media 10base2/BNC"

Rich.


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