From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 15:36:17 2002 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 AE5D737B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:36:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C2443EBE for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:36:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 70952 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2002 23:36:14 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Dec 2002 23:36:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF2859E.90600@liwing.de> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 00:34:54 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: new ethernetcard References: <20021207231147.GA1228@nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dick hoogendijk wrote: > When installing fbsd4.7 I had one ethernetcard in my machine. Now I want > to put in another. In which file can I control the name and ip of this > new card for booting. I looked into loader.conf and rc.conf but can't > find how the card is checked or controled. > > So, which file do I need to update after the installation of the new > card? Add a line like 'ifconfig_{dev-name}="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"' to your /etc/rc.conf and read rc.conf(5) carefully. Best Regards Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message