Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 00:03:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland) Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPP!!!! Beyond lost on address prob Message-ID: <199903080503.AAA21731@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36E32A41.49EA6767@confusion.net> from Laurence Berland at "Mar 7, 99 08:39:14 pm"
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Laurence Berland wrote,
> How do I assign a machine its address on my subnet?? Am I totally lost?
> I feel like this is a question whose answer is so obvious that I'd be
> laughed at for posting it to Questions. Help!
Two things,
(1) To make it so that your computer knows its IP address at each
start up, edit the line in rc.conf,
ifconfig_<dev>="inet aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd netmask 255.255.255.0"
Where '<dev>' is the name of your network device (look in your
dmesg output, you have a NIC right?), and 'aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd' is the
machine's address. I assumed the mask is 255.255.255.0, but it
might be something else. We'd have to know the details of your
network.
(2) To get it to work NOW, use the same information as above accept
enter, while root (the Super-User),
# ifconfig <dev> inet aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd netmask 255.255.255.0
OK, three things,
(3) If this is all a bit much for you, run /stand/sysinstall as root
and go to 'Configure,' then 'Networking,' and then 'Interfaces.'
Answer the questions and fill in the blanks.
All (1) does is automatically do the command line in (2) in the
startup scripts. If you are still at a loss, please let us know.
HTH.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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