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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2000 20:47:43 +0200
From:      Olaf Zaplinski <olaf@nichols.de>
To:        "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "'doc@FreeBSD.org'" <doc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   a non-newbies question
Message-ID:  <61329DA77249D211A07800600874FB0D0FAC14@galileo.nichols>

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Hi,

I am using Linux since kernel 0.99pl15 and also have worked with Sinix
(Siemens commercial U*ix version).

Today I got me FreeBSD 4.0.

For 2 hours now I cannot get the machine to work in my internal network. All
I want to tell it is:

- this is your address: 192.168.0.22/24
- this is your default gateway: 192.168.0.15
- this is your DNS server to ask: 192.168.0.15

I could not find any of these mentioned in the FAQ or handbook (which only
tells about PPP etc.; at least KDE is working so I can read the handbook -
lynx was *not* installed on the machine). All I found after the first
boot-up was the /etc/issue that I should have a look on www.freebsd.org -
very funny when the network is not up and running. But good luck I have an
old Win95 machine here... ;-)

BTW, I could tell the machine its IP address manually - by reading
/etc/rc.network and creating /etc/start_if.fxp0... that is too much for me.
Then I booted a Linux machine and installed /etc/route.conf accordingly -
the machine ignores it...

If that's FreeBSD then there's no wonder that there is that big Linux hype
all around... (sorry folks, but I'm veeery frustraded right now).

BTW, I am not counting on some fancy setup tool here, just tell me which
files I have to edit to get this simple network conf up and running.

Kind regards
Olaf



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