From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 9:19:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD7337BF16 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6DGIOl96334; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:18:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Carl Strickler Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Changing NIC Configuration In-Reply-To: <01BFECAA.470A0E20.cstrickl@ifta.net> 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 Oh... /etc/rc.conf // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Carl Strickler wrote: > I haven't actually done the changing of the IP address yet, > but when I go into /stand/sysinstall I am able to get to a point where > I could change the information. But I am still puzzled about where > the information is being stored. Also I would like to know so that I could > just change a line or two in a conf file instead of having to run sysinstall. > > Re: ifconfig -a: It works wonderfully. Tells me everything I could want to know > (except where the darn configuration is being stored. :]) > > > - Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linh Pham [SMTP:lplist@q.closedsrc.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 8:55 AM > To: Carl Strickler > Cc: 'Edhi Nugroho'; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: RE: Changing NIC Configuration > > > Were you able to change the NIC configuration of the card using > /stand/sysinstall (as I mentioned in my past e-mail)? > > Normally any NIC changes under sysinstall should be reflected in > /etc/rc.conf > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf only contains the bear defaults and you should be > making changes in /etc/rc.conf > > the fxp interface isn't coming up when you do a ``ifconfig -a''? > > // Linh Pham > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message