From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 15:23:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.jjsoft.com (fig2.figdav.com [208.152.114.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9304F37B594 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jahanur@jjsoft.com) Received: from ns2.jjsoft.com (ns2.jjsoft.com [208.152.114.19]) by ns2.jjsoft.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA06051; Sun, 28 May 2000 17:14:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:14:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jahanur R Subedar To: Bryan Liesner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd NIC 3com 8315 In-Reply-To: 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 Thanks for the reply. did all of that. still the same. On Sun, 28 May 2000, Bryan Liesner wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > > > > >I try to install the 2nd NIC which is 3com 8315 isa. > >I can see at boot time that its picked up at > >ed0 0x300 irq 10 isa > >but it does not sets up its ifcofig from the rc.conf > >setting. > >But if i enter it manually by the ifconfig command it stays. > >Very strabge, Can you tell me why is it not picking up from > >the rc.conf file. > >Please help > > In rc.conf, you have to specify either: > network_interfaces="auto" > or specifically say which interfaces you want to configure like: > network_interfaces="lo0 dc0 dc1" > > Now that we've done that, here are two ways to get ifconfig to do its > job. I'm using my dc1 interface as an example. > > Add something like this to rc.conf: > ifconfig_dc1="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00" > > OR, if you don't add the above line in rc.conf, create a file in /etc > called start_if.dc1 containing: > ifconfig dc1 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 > > > ========================================================== > = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = > = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = > = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = > ========================================================== > > > Jahanur R Subedar WWW.JJSOFT.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message