From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 9:35:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223DA37B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.88.208]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001007163515.CLVI13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:35:15 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e97GZ5u03544; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:35:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:35:05 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Joe Loughry Cc: david@banning.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using win95 PC off of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001007173505.F255@parish> References: <200010071611.KAA01632@miranda.dnvr.uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010071611.KAA01632@miranda.dnvr.uswest.net>; from loughry@uswest.net on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:11:59AM -0600 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:11:59AM -0600, Joe Loughry wrote: > It is necessary to make a few adjustments here and there to tell > FreeBSD about your new network. First, choose IP addresses for the > two machines. 192.168.1.1 is a good address for the FreeBSD machine, > and 192.168.1.2 is a good address for the Windows 95 machine. These > are special addresses reserved for private networks. The netmask is > 255.255.255.255 and all this information goes in your /etc/rc.conf > file on the FreeBSD machine: add "ed0" (or whatever your new ethernet > device is) to the "network_interfaces" line and add another line that > looks like this: > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255" > Should the netmask not be 255.255.255.0 since this is a class C network? -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message