From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 09:30:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA2C16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF94343D2D for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i31HUKBU053561 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i31HUXL3016599 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i31HUXkE016598 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:30:32 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20040401173032.GA16568@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: NIC question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:30:37 -0000 Hi folks, On my HP computer, Redhat has this listed as its NIC: Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 \ [PCnet 5778-LANCE] (rev 25) In the KERNEL configuation files I grep'd the following re the AMD NIC: device pcn # AMD Am79C79x PCI 10/100 NICs In the new DNS server I'm building, is the following ifconfig line correct for the first AMD NIC: ifconfig_pcn0="inet 216.231.43.140 netmask 255.255.255.0" (To get my net link working is most important, but there are webserver and mailserver issues too. It'd be great to just switch cables and have everything Just-Work {TM}, but that seems unlikely!!!) thanks for any insights, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix