Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:02:56 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP pendantic primer misses a step? Message-ID: <199811150701.UAA16239@witch.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142255040.21054-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> References: <199811150605.TAA05897@witch.xtra.co.nz>
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On 14 Nov 98, at 22:55, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > > >Tonight I helped a chap out getting his network card running. He > >couldn't get ifconfig to show an IP address. He claimed to be doing > >everything in the manual. I suggested he do the following manually: > > > >ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.98 255.255.255.0 > > > >>From then, it worked. > > > >Is this a step which must be first done manually? > > It is done vi rc.conf on my box. Sorry. I omitted that point in my original post. The user had something like: ifconfig_ed1="inet 192.168.0.98 netmask 255.255.255.0" in /etc/rc.conf. But until the above mentioned step was done manually, ifconfig -a did not show an IP address. I admit my details are sketchy. I was helping someone on IRC and I probably do not have all the details. I also seem to recall being told that an ifconfig had to be done once, manually, to initialise things. Does any of this ring true to anyone? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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