From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 13:50:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA16792 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from joker.mil.ufl.edu (joker.mil.ufl.edu [128.227.56.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16760 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pomalley@mil.ufl.edu) Received: from dhcp56-9.ee.ufl.edu by joker.mil.ufl.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49) id YQM78QRN; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:56:27 -0500 Message-ID: <348C6D26.2C244412@mil.ufl.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 16:56:54 -0500 From: "Patrick O'Malley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD/Ethernet/Dynamic IP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying for many hours, unsuccessfully, to have my installation of FreeBSD 2.2.5 get an IP address dynamically. It's ethernet card -- an SMC WD8003 8-bit -- is recognized. The machine is on an ethernet with some WinNT machines (not that that should make a big difference). I assume that I need an IP address of some sort in the command line of IFCONFIG. What that address should be is a mystery. During the initial boot-up, it reports that the network is unreachable and the lights on the card show that it never transmits. Is there something I missed in the installation? Thanks. Patrick O'Malley Machine Intelligence Laboratory University of Florida http://www.mil.ufl.edu