From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 14:43:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD1016A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:43:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D32943D46 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:43:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:46:24 -0500 Message-ID: <414703A2.1000507@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:43:46 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hide110 References: <200409140752.i8E7qKcx011377@in.flite.net> In-Reply-To: <200409140752.i8E7qKcx011377@in.flite.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Sep 2004 14:46:26.0368 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CA77400:01C49A69] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:43:51 -0000 hide110 wrote: >Sorry for the silly question, maybe I just haven't really been reading up >enough, but I have never really delved much into networks. Here's my current >setup, all my systems are connected to a small home office router which is in >turn connected to a cable modem. With my Windows machines I just plug a cat5 >into an empty slot and it's automatically assigned an IP. Some are setup as >static based on MAC and some not; regardless whenever it's plugged in it will >autodetect. > >During the FreeBSD installation it does not seem to pull any information down >when I choose DHCP, I foolishly did not enter in the required fields, & just >went on to setup XWindows. Where do I modify my network settings? What >command would I use? Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting >my internet setup? > > Obligatory answer: send your ?? to questions@freebsd.org, which is the more applicable forum. Friendly answer, newb to newb: edit /etc/rc.conf. Here's a sample of mine: # NETWORK CONFIG hostname="foobar.daleco.biz" ifconfig_sis0="192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" You could just as easily have { ifconfig_sis0="DHCP" } there to pull your info from the router. You may also need { defaultrouter=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx } (i.e. the IP of your router) --- I don't generally run FBSD via DHCP, and am therefore not sure if you'll get your default route set or not. I *think* you will.... HTH, KDK