From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 3:37:57 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 699B437B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 03:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E78B43E65 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 03:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan.baldwin@nexusalpha.com) Received: from pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:37:49 +0100 Received: from ryanb (unverified [213.48.13.34]) by pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with SMTP id for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:37:42 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Ryan Baldwin" To: Subject: RE: sis900 ifconfig and static ip address Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:39:23 +0100 Message-ID: <000101c23f91$072f8dc0$cf01a8c0@ryanb> 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 CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 Thanks alot - I do mean rc.conf that was a mistake. ifconfig_sis0="inet 192.168.2.100 netmask 255.255.255.0" ^^^^^^^ Oh my, that could very well be the problem. I was trying to get this going last and am at work at the moment and wrote this post from memory but I am fairly sure that is what I put- I will check this once I get home. I apologise for the poorely written and stupid(if this is the problem) question, and thanks very much for the respone. Ryan Barry - sorry fr responding to your email directly - I hit reply intending this to go to the list but then realised what was in the To field a little to late. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Barry Byrne Sent: 09 August 2002 11:24 To: ryan.baldwin@nexusalpha.com; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: sis900 ifconfig and static ip address 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message