From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 08:35:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09936 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:35:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09917 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA03929; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Francisco Reyes cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow startup after configuring ethernet card In-Reply-To: <199810112337.TAA03501@federation.addy.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 On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On 11-Oct-98 Dan Busarow wrote: > > The value for gateway should be the IP address of a machine connected > > to another network (typically the Internet). > > My intention is to use this computer as the gateway for another 5 > computers. > > Someone else mentioned to make the gateway 0.0.0.0 Which implies that you are planning on a PPP connection. Don't assign a gateway in rc.conf, your PPP startup will take care of this for you. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message