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From: jerry <jerry@pc-intouch.com>
To: Ryan Younce <ryan@manunkind.org>
Subject: Re: changing nics
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:25:46 +0000
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Thanks for the help.. I got the  rc.conf looking as you sed.. except using 
ed0 instead of ep0.. Still didn't work...I re-installed, still not working...
Will re-install when I get more time..   I've done it twice before and I will
get it again.. 


On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Ryan Younce wrote:
> Thus spake jerry <jerry@pc-intouch.com>:
> > I have 2 pcs running FreeBSD. I changed nic on one pc. This pc is
> > triple-booting FreeBSD,
> > Slackware 7.0 and Windows 98. I was able to re-configure both the LInux
> > and Windows
> > network interfaces........... (old = smc-ultra, new=ne2000). After
> > reviewing the manual, It seems
> > to me that the only way to reconfigure for the new nic, is to re-install
> > the FreeBSD system.`
> > I sure hope I'm wrong...
> >    de jerry
> 
> You're wrong. =)
> 
> If I understand correctly, you swapped out a NIC with another one and want
> to maintain the same configuration (IP address, broadcast, gateway, etc).
> Compile support for the new card into your kernel for the device to be
> recognized.  You can use /stand/sysinstall to configure it or if you want,
> just add the new device to the network_interfaces list in /etc/rc.conf,
> and add a configuration line for the new interface.  For example, assuming
> a new 3c509 card was installed (which is device ep, the first being ep0),
> you would have the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> 	network_interfaces="ep0 lo0 [any other interfaces]"
> 	ifconfig_ep0="inet [your ip] netmask [your netmask]"
> 
> You can reboot then, or if the card is already in the kernel and you don't
> want to reboot, look at using /sbin/ifconfig to bring the new interface
> up and simultaneously configuring it.  Usually something like:
> 
> 	/sbin/ifconfig ep0 up [your ip address] netmask [your netmask]
> 
> -- 
> Ryan "Cheshire" Younce  -  Registered Libertarian  -  Professional Cat Herder
> ryan@manunkind.org|ICQ 4433228(H) 74390437(W)|http://www.manunkind.org/~ryan/
> "And the next morning we had this orgy of one-liners..."
>      --Doug McIlroy, on the morning after Ken Thompson implemented UNIX pipes


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