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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:05:28 -0400
From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
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To: Olaf Zaplinski <olaf@nichols.de>
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Olaf Zaplinski wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Linux since kernel 0.99pl15 and also have worked with Sinix
> (Siemens commercial U*ix version).
> 
> Today I got me FreeBSD 4.0.
> 
> For 2 hours now I cannot get the machine to work in my internal network. All
> I want to tell it is:
> 
> - this is your address: 192.168.0.22/24
> - this is your default gateway: 192.168.0.15
> - this is your DNS server to ask: 192.168.0.15
> 
> I could not find any of these mentioned in the FAQ or handbook (which only
> tells about PPP etc.; at least KDE is working so I can read the handbook -
> lynx was *not* installed on the machine). All I found after the first
> boot-up was the /etc/issue that I should have a look on www.freebsd.org -
> very funny when the network is not up and running. But good luck I have an
> old Win95 machine here... ;-)
> 
> BTW, I could tell the machine its IP address manually - by reading
> /etc/rc.network and creating /etc/start_if.fxp0... that is too much for me.
> Then I booted a Linux machine and installed /etc/route.conf accordingly -
> the machine ignores it...
> 
> If that's FreeBSD then there's no wonder that there is that big Linux hype
> all around... (sorry folks, but I'm veeery frustraded right now).
> 
> BTW, I am not counting on some fancy setup tool here, just tell me which
> files I have to edit to get this simple network conf up and running.
> 
> Kind regards
> Olaf
> 
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in /etc/rc.conf put:

network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.0.22 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.0.15"

then in /etc/resolv.conf put:

domain 	yourdomain.com
nameserver	192.168.0.15


good luck.
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