Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:14:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Patrick O'Malley" <pomalley@mil.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Ethernet/Dynamic IP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208151153.13271P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <348C6D26.2C244412@mil.ufl.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Patrick O'Malley wrote: > I've been trying for many hours, unsuccessfully, to have my > installation of FreeBSD 2.2.5 get an IP address dynamically. It's > ethernet card -- an SMC WD8003 8-bit -- is recognized. The machine is on > an ethernet with some WinNT machines (not that that should make a big > difference). > I assume that I need an IP address of some sort in the command line of > IFCONFIG. What that address should be is a mystery. > During the initial boot-up, it reports that the network is unreachable > and the lights on the card show that it never transmits. > Is there something I missed in the installation? The easiest thing to do is to petition your network administrator for a static IP address. This way you can access your machine remotely. Feed the IP address they give you to the ifconfig_ed0 line in /etc/rc.conf, the hostname in the hostname line, and you should be set. If they won't grant you a static address and your network uses DHCP, you need to fetch the wide- or isc-dhcp port from http://www.freebsd.org/ports/net/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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