From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 9:58:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7D414D97 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11mJNq-0000MZ-00; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:17:06 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11mJNq-0000YZ-00; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:17:06 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:17:06 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: danny h Cc: flec@flec.co.uk, MarcW@Lanfear.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing a Machine's IP address? Message-ID: <19991112161706.C2052@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19991112024845.67296.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991112024845.67296.qmail@hotmail.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG danny h wrote: > If you have root access why not use /stand/sysinstall and change the IP > address of the machine. Because people with some experience of Unix find a text editor and the command line easier to use than some graphical interface. This is the reason in my case anyway, although I don't claim to have a huge amount of experience. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message