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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:14:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Patrick O'Malley" <pomalley@mil.ufl.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Ethernet/Dynamic IP
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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