From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 21:26:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7004237B61E for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@rod.darktech.org) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip22.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.22]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA22734; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e6P4PHu01621; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:25:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eogren) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:25:17 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: John Michelini Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pedantic PPP Primer clarification Message-ID: <20000725002517.A327@earthlink.net> References: <009501bff5dd$7b4bb580$eeb2b13f@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <009501bff5dd$7b4bb580$eeb2b13f@oemcomputer>; from John1mick@cs.com on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:10:12PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi John- On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:10:12PM -0700, John Michelini wrote: > 1)(From Verifying the Ethernet Interface Configuration) Reminder: If your > Ethernet card isn't named 'ed0', specify the correct device name here > instead. > > My question: How can I find the correct device name if Ethernet isn't yet > configured (and not displayed with ifconfig -a)? Assuming you have the correct driver compiled into the kernel, running "dmesg" should give you the device name. For example, my dmesg output has: ep0: <3Com 3C509-TP EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 7 on isa0 ep0: Ethernet address 00:a0:24:d8:0a:b3 in it. > 2) Will I run into problems if I use the example IP addresses in the Primer > for Creating the List of LAN hosts (in the /etc/hosts directory) for my > hosts? Nope; 192.168.* addresses are specifically reserved for private networks, so you can use them without problems. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message