From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 3:24:21 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 8BC4337B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 03:24:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968AF43E5E for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 03:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g79AOEjB044914; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:24:14 +0100 (IST) From: "Barry Byrne" To: , Subject: RE: sis900 ifconfig and static ip address Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:24:13 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <000301c23f8e$52788050$cf01a8c0@ryanb> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 Ryan: I assume you mean rc.conf. and I think it should read: ifconfig_sis0="inet 192.168.2.100 netmask 255.255.255.0" ^^^^^^^ - Barry > > I am trying to give my FreeBsd box a static ip address. I have set up > machines with static ip's before without problems. This machine used dhcp > previously. In rc.d I have changed > > ifconfig_sis0="DHCP" > to > ifconfig_sis0="inet 192.168.2.100 subnet 255.255.255.0" > > 192.168.2.100 is the address it used to be assigned via dhcp. The dhcp > server on my network is now disabled. The problem is that now > when ifconfig > runs during boot > the card does not report an ip address. If I run ifconfig it > shows that the > cards autodetected the media ok - but it does not have an ip address. The > interface is therefre not operational. This has worked for me in the past > OK. I've tried looking for solutions but with no luck so far. I would > appreciate it if anyone could let me know if they know of anything I might > have got wrong that would lead to this problem. As far as I'm > aware this is > the first step in switching the box over to a static ip. > > Thanks > > Ryan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message