From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 1 6:30:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14103.mail.yahoo.com (web14103.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4837337B406 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k_greenwood1@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010801133052.91002.qmail@web14103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.105.201.115] by web14103.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 01 Aug 2001 06:30:52 PDT Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Greenwood" Subject: Re: IP address not binding to the NIC To: tad.crandall@lightsurf.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Um... first suggestion is not to send mail as html. Chances are many of the people who actually know what they are talking about deleted your message when they saw html. Also, a little more detail would be helpful. Just saying "it ain't working..." generally will not garner many responses from a list of volunteer's. Having that out of the way, since no one else replied, I may as well try. First off I assume you have a nic installed and it is detected on bootup (as found in /etc/log/dmesg.today). I also assume that you know what "name" it is given (for instance mine is a linksys lne100? which is "dc0"). You will also want to go into /etc/rc.conf and ensure the following is included: network_interfaces="lo0 dc0" NOTE: The dc0 must be changed to your ethernet device "name". Next is this an internal network? Static addresses or dhcp assigned (dhcp usually via your isp)? If dhcp, go into /stand/sysinstall, configure, network interfaces and on the second prompt accept that it find a dhcp server. If it ain't found, either your network card is malfunctioning (are you sure it's detected?), ain't plugged in properly, or your isp hates you (I'm kidding!). If you're using static (non routable in this case) addresses you may want something like the following. ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1". Hope this helps, and good luck. --- Tad Crandall wrote: > Open Office and Kylix. > When I reboot my freebsd server the IP address > does not stay binded with > the NIC. > > Suggestions? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message