From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 6: 8:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6461A37B41F for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbish ([63.70.155.70]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:08:12 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Matt Lazarou" Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: Regarding Interface For My NIC Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:08:10 -0500 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 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 You left out some very important info. Who is this Nic talking to? Is it to a lan or to a cable modem? Configuring a cable modem. You don't need to configure a user ppp.conf file to connect to your cable provider. However, you do need an IP address in order to use the Internet. Your cable provider has computers called DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) servers that will automatically provide your FBSD system with all the information it needs to communicate with the internet. In order to communicate with the cable provider's DHCP servers, you must configure your FBSD Nic card that is cabled to the cable modem to use the DHCP client software that is built into the core kernel of FBSD. To active it, Edit /etc/rc.conf and add the following statement. ee /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" Where xl0 is the FBSD Nic card device name. That's it, configuration complete. Reboot to activate. Assuming your cable modem is physically connected to your cable provider with a functioning circuit and their DHCP server is running. Toward the end of your boot messages, you should notice one or more DHCPREQUESTS messages followed by a DHCPACK message and DHCP information messages, which should include your IP address, default gateway address, DNS server address, and lease period, displayed on the root console screen. This is all based on your Nic card being found during the boot process. Check /var/run/dmesg.boot to verify your nic card is found and usable. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matt Lazarou Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Regarding Interface For My NIC Hi, For some reason whenever I boot into FreeBSD my interface txp0 wont be assigned an IP. When i do ifconfig -a to check the status I see that it says: Status: No Carrier I edited the rc.conf in /etc and hosts in /etc and updated my new dns there with the correct IP. Also, I reconfigured my NIC setup with the DHCP but it's still not picking anything up. Any clue why interface is having trouble? Everything works fine under windows 2k pro. Any help would be greatly apperciated. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. 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