Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:31:13 -0400 From: mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com> To: Anthony Carmody <carmoda@interfaceergonomics.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone have an example of an rc.conf file with ... Message-ID: <20020423223113.A19957@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <004101c1eb34$e8e5b700$6700a8c0@interfa.fortune>; from carmoda@interfaceergonomics.com on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:08:19PM %2B1000 References: <001f01c1eb2b$024a4f30$6700a8c0@interfa.fortune> <20020423211011.A19646@rochester.rr.com> <004101c1eb34$e8e5b700$6700a8c0@interfa.fortune>
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Please don't remove the cc: to questions. The answers need to be archived along with the questions. On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:08:19PM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote: > > > > Does anyone have an example of a "/etc/rc.conf" & "/etc/default/rc.conf" > > > file running as a DHCP client and accepting DNS. I think someone may > have > > > > Accepting DNS? I don't understand that. > > sorry, the freebsd machine is a DNS client. Any machine on the Internet is likely to be a DNS client... > > > I'm using DHCP to get my IP. Here are the relevant lines from my rc.conf: > > > > network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0" > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" > > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" > > > > Is this what you meant? > > yeah, done that. > > > > edited the default rc file at some stage as there are strange things > coming > > > up when i do a "ifconfig -a" > > > > Like what? > > whole lotta extra crap like this: > > interfa2# ifconfig > sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::210:c6ff:fe01:cb52%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ether 00:10:c6:01:cb:52 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active This is ok. > lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 Dunno. > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 Ok. > ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 > faith0: flags=8000<MULTICAST> mtu 1500 Possibly unnecessary. If you don't know what any of these three are for, and you aren't using a dialup, you probably don't need these. > > is this normal? Everything looks ok. Are you having any actual problems, or are you just worried about the whether ifconfig -a has correct output? You may have a few extra devices listed that you don't need, but that shouldn't break anything that I know of. You probably don't need the sl0 or ppp0 devices if you're using a NIC, and I'm curious about the lp0 device. What's does that do? The faith0 device is for capturing IPv6 info. You may not need that, either. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "THAT IS THE PRICE OF LOVE" - Pokey the Penguin from "THE PRICE OF LOVE" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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