From owner-freebsd-net Sun May 10 13:29:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07190 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 13:29:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wna1.wna-linknet.com (root@wna1.wna-linknet.com [208.128.88.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07178 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 13:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from x5gb7uk9@wna-linknet.com) Received: from RED_DWARF (cust129.wna-linknet.com [208.128.88.129]) by wna1.wna-linknet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12821 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 16:29:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35560D1F.40F8@wna-linknet.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 15:25:03 -0500 From: "Arnold J. Rimmer" Reply-To: x5gb7uk9@wna-linknet.com Organization: Jupiter Mining Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: home network Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sorry i was imprecise. there ARE T-connectors with terminators at each ethernet card. but there is no hub. opps, actual result of ifconfig -a is: ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:00:c0:0f:62:9b the addresses were assigned as per tutorial by going into /etc/hosts. after changes to /etc/hosts and etc/rc.conf i rebooted. i've done nothing to rc.network. it was not mentioned in the tutorial. nor was multiuser mode. i boot up the box and login as root. i guess i am in single user mode. how is multiuser mode started? AJR / If you get to it / and you cannot do it / there you jolly well are / aren't you? ...Lord Buckley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message