From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 17:20:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from istar.ca (d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net [24.141.119.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA63737B71A for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: (from genisis@localhost) by istar.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f311NQ008527; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:23:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from genisis) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:23:26 -0500 (EST) From: Dru To: GoodOlMike Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from a static address to dhcp In-Reply-To: <3AC67C65.AC6913F@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Mike, Did you reboot after you made your changes to /etc/rc.conf? AFAIK, this file is only read at bootup time. HTH, Dru On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, GoodOlMike wrote: > I'm having a hard time finding some documentation for this move. I'm > using a 4.2 stable kernel. I tried changing ifconfig_vr0 in rc.conf to > "DHCP" and making the change to dhcp in /stand/sysinstall but I've > obviously missed something because I'm not getting an address from > @home, my cable modem connection. I've looked around and found some > things but they've been fixes for much earlier kernels. > @home is changing all static users so it might be a good time for an > artical on the subject. > Thanks, > Mike Wilson > > > 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