From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 14 23:02:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27818 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from witch.xtra.co.nz (witch.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27811 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by witch.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA16239; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:01:34 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199811150701.UAA16239@witch.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: "Jason C. Wells" Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:02:56 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: PPP pendantic primer misses a step? Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199811150605.TAA05897@witch.xtra.co.nz> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Nov 98, at 22:55, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > > >Tonight I helped a chap out getting his network card running. He > >couldn't get ifconfig to show an IP address. He claimed to be doing > >everything in the manual. I suggested he do the following manually: > > > >ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.98 255.255.255.0 > > > >>From then, it worked. > > > >Is this a step which must be first done manually? > > It is done vi rc.conf on my box. Sorry. I omitted that point in my original post. The user had something like: ifconfig_ed1="inet 192.168.0.98 netmask 255.255.255.0" in /etc/rc.conf. But until the above mentioned step was done manually, ifconfig -a did not show an IP address. I admit my details are sketchy. I was helping someone on IRC and I probably do not have all the details. I also seem to recall being told that an ifconfig had to be done once, manually, to initialise things. Does any of this ring true to anyone? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message