From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 23 16:45:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA21750 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA21745 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA00335; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:44:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Lee Black cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing network settings and monitor settings In-Reply-To: <33FE0F7B.47B36547@vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Lee Black wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD before I left for college and now that I am > down here I would like to know what files to modify in order to change > my i.p., DNS, gateway, and all that good stuff. I have also changed > monitors and was wondering how to modify xwindows so that it didn't fry > this one. Thanks alot For the network settings, your IP and interface are configured in /etc/{rc.conf | sysconfig}, dependin gon your version of FreeBSD, and your DNS info is in /etc/resolv.conf. While you're off your network, I would disable the ifconfig for your network card and remove the default route, if you configured one. This will keep some of the erroneous routes from getting in there and messing things up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo