From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 11:19:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13174 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:19:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13106 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01049; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:19:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:19:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Shan-Min Chao cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vx0 In-Reply-To: <199802112122.NAA02663@lites.lvdi.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 On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > Thank you for the advice about my 3C590 PCI ethernet card! Now, > for additional help... :) No problem. > What do I have to do to configure my ethernet card so that > other (Win95)computers on the LAN can ping it? All I have done > so far is recognize that my ethernet card is under the vx0 > device name. How do I make sure the computer detected > the card? Now you need to teach FreeBSD about your network. > Now, for the next step, I think you have to mess around with > the rc.conf file, right? If I remebered correctly, you have to > do something with the ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" line > under the file. What do I have to change it to? Actually, you want to create a new line like so: ifconfig_vx0="inet your.ip.address netmask your.netmask" Replace your.ip.address and your.netmask with the appropriate values. Also modify /etc/resolv.conf and add a line `nameserver your.nameserver.ip'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message