From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 11:51:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D161065675 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 11:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7868FC1B for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 11:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [71.20.75.102]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 75ED416B4BB; Thu, 24 May 2012 06:51:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Thu, 24 May 2012 06:49:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 06:49:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.larseighnerhome.com To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <201205230534.q4N5YhcB083259@mail.r-bonomi.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: Connect to Clear hub modem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:51:04 -0000 On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote: > >> Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in >> 198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting. >> >> This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf: >> >> network_interfaces="lo0 re0" > > That is normally not needed. > >> ifconfig="DCHP" >> ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.15.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > These are variable assignments, and the second line overwrites the value > assigned by the first. The first alone is preferable because DHCP will do > other setup, like the route and resolve.conf. Actually, it seems DCHP won't do it alone. But doing without DCHP does work. Since I gather DCHP && the other stuff can introduce contradictions, I'm doing without DCHP until I understand this better. If I can get x.org to work with tty switching again, I'll further investigate the combinations. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266