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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 1995 08:36:12 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        mcaughey@infi.net (Michael Caughey)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: routing or not routing? 
Message-ID:  <199503311636.IAA03200@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:06:30 EST." <199503311506.KAA27769@larry.infi.net> 

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>Is there any one who has a bit of spare time on their hands that can come to
>my rescue?
>
>I'm know to the Ether net set up of my server.  What I have is FreeBSD on a
>486, a 3 com 3c509b ethernet card and a 28.8 modem for the ppp link.  
>
>    First the PPP works great.  In the /etc/ppp/options file I have set the
>local IP address to the of my host machine ?.?.?.1 and the remote to that of
>the gateway at my service provider.  
>
>    My Ethernet card device is ep0 and is reconized fine by the kernel.  My
>goal is to be able to ping a machine on the network that is also running
>TCP/IP.  I've tried to set up the card using ifconfig.  I used the line:
>
>ifconfig ep0 inet ?.?.?.1 up netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast ?.?.?.255

If you are running either 10base-T or aui (thicknet), you must specify
the "link2" flag on the tail of you're ifconfig line.

>Thanks in advance!
> ------------------------------------------
>| Michael Caughey.                         |
>| mcaughey@infi.net                        |
>| running FreeBSD 2.0!                     |
> ------------------------------------------
>

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Justin T. Gibbs
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