From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 14:37:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx308-mta.mail.com (rmx308-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0768137BCFE for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bpetro@usa.com) Received: from web303-mc.mail.com (web303-mc.mail.com [165.251.48.164]) by rmx308-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA04870; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:37:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <384562919.965252254079.JavaMail.root@web303-mc.mail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:37:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Petro To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Attaching to new Cable Modem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: mail.com X-Originating-IP: 208.24.179.202 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks - I had been afraid that I would have to have entries that limited my DNS, and somehow, make my IP = 0 or those type of things - evidently its all wrapped up in and taken care of by the DHCP setting! Thanks again everyone. Bruce. >Out of the ether, Bruce Petro spewed forth the following bitstream: >> Any one have some help for this? I don't see a >> section in gregg's book on this (though mine >> might be an old ver)- I mostly see serial info. >> >> This is new (Time Warner's road runner) and according >> to the setup appears to be not a serial conn at all. >> (the cable modem that is). > >All you need to do is configure your ethernet interface to use DHCP. > >To do this, add the following line to your /etc/rc.conf: > >ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" > >(replacing xl0 with whatever interface you use). > >Should work "right out of the box". > >AlanC > ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message