Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:17:02 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Rafael Caballero Jr <rcaballero@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a cable modem Message-ID: <3A9DBF2E.37D4C261@mail.iowna.com> References: <NEBBICLGALEEIBGBGOACIENLCDAA.rcaballero@mindspring.com>
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Rafael Caballero Jr wrote: > > I'm a newbie to FreeBSD as I've grown tired of Microsoft and chose to go > with FreeBSD as my choice of server at home. > I have a 233MHZ with 128 MB RAM. I've allocated 2.0 GB for FreeBSD as I plan > on running it for squid, webserver, and proxy. I have 2 NIC's in it (3Com > 3c905TX). I have a cable modem that DHCP's my IP address so I've been > trying to set up the ETH0 for DHCP but it will not allow me or does not > recognize the DHCP server at RoadRunner. How do I set up my FreeBSD box to > accept DHCP so that I can run NAT on my ETH1 so that it may serve as a > proxy? Part of your problem may be that FreeBSD does not label ethernet adapters as eth# devices like Linux does. They're probably ed# or something like that - different drivers for different ethernet card types have different abbreviations. To find out what FreeBSD detects, either look at dmesg output or "ifconfig -a" output. Once you know what the adapter devices are called (let's assume it's ed#) you can simply add this line to /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_ed1="DHCP" And it should work just fine. I'm using Roadrunner here with FreeBSD and I'm having no trouble. Good luck, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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