Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:05:28 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Olaf Zaplinski <olaf@nichols.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a non-newbies question Message-ID: <39205888.18B0C51B@wmptl.com> References: <61329DA77249D211A07800600874FB0D0FAC14@galileo.nichols>
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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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 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. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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