From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 11: 3:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE471522C for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05582; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:03:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Matthew Amelin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <8525676F.004480BE.00@leia.alpinecsi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999, Matthew Amelin wrote: > I am tring to set up my laptop so I can browse the internet from work > I put my default gateway in the defaultrouter "0.0.0.0" in my rc.conf > and my nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf > and when I try to ping my gate way I get > /kernel : arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for "mygatewayaddress" 14rt > > My company is using DHCP then what would be my inet address that I specify > for my nic card? I've noticed that dhclient doesn't like to plug in the default router for some reason. Ask your network admin for the default router address, and set that as the 'defaultrouter' in rc.conf (instead of 0.0.0.0). Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message