From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 13:53:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A83837BB41 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:53:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.59]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:58:15 -0700 Message-ID: <39075747.61B8BBDD@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:53:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Rothgaber Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking References: <200004261909.PAA10036@s1.easley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Rothgaber wrote: > > Hope this isn't a dumb one... > > Looking over the handbook, I see every networking topic covered > except ye old basic LAN stuff. I'm spoiled by BSDI, having > everything in one file: /etc/netstart. Can someone give me a > brief overview of the FreeBSD networing file structure? Some people even go so far as to use /stand/sysinstall to configure /etc/rc.conf. That probably only makes a difference depending on how many letters you can type with out a mistake. I have two different types of NIC and found it expedient to specify both media and mediaopt. When it doesn't work, it is obvious that you did something wrong :). Kent > > Thanks! > Scott > > -- > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > * * > * Easley Internet Solutions 864.859.2400 * > * Easley, SC USA Fax: 864.855.5864 * > * http://www.easley.net/ AIM: ExCavSGT * > * * > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message