From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 16:38:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC23737BC57 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:38:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 5082 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 23:38:35 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (root@209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 11 May 2000 23:38:35 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA01035; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:42:15 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Set a default route - with no broken bones From: Harry Putnam Date: 11 May 2000 16:42:05 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 26 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After grappling with the BSD OS for 2days now, I feel like I've been in the ring with Tyson. (I'll admit it hasn't bit me yet) The ins and outs of using ifconfig are winning most rounds. A few simple examples would be nice in that man page. Setting a default route must be a common need with ifconfig. I was unable to parse the retoric and devine out actual syntax. I vowed to capture the output of `ifconfig ed0' and `ifconfig dc0' ( two nics installed) and move the files somewhere accessable, but made the mistake of rebooting before I did that, now the kernel is mislaid and no bootski. But in short, I've used the /stand/sysinstall/ tool to access the network setup and repeatedly set the default route there. I've discovered if I shut down one interface, the other can ping my static IP address, but not the gateway. I'm on a dsl line, the straigh ethernet kind. Displaying the interfaces with ifconfig shows the numbers I've installed repeatedly. All look correct. Once I've used fixit or whatever to get back inside I hope to post some better info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message