From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 03:22:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA21715 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 03:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.inbe.net (root@hydrogen.inbe.net [194.7.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA21709 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 03:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jannt (pool016a-230.innet.be [194.7.8.230]) by hydrogen.inbe.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26609; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:22:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199709101022.MAA26609@hydrogen.inbe.net> From: "Jan Brosius" To: Cc: Subject: Fw: FTP how? Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:16:38 +0200 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FReeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have put 0.0.0.0 for my own IP-address and for the gateway. However it is not clear what Ihave to put in the "ifconfig"-text-space. I surely must give the phone number and perhaps other things. But how? This is totally unclear to me and I think for every novice. I think that the freebsd-team could have done here a better job. Can anyone help? Thanks Jan ---------- > From: Jan Brosius > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: jan.brosius@club.innet.be > Subject: FTP how? > Date: Tuesday, September 09, 1997 8:53 PM > > Dear Sir, > > I'd like to download freebsd 2.2.x from the internet. However My > ISP only gives me the IP-address of his nameserver. That is both > my IP-address and the IP-addres of the gateway (of the ISP) have to be > negotiated every time when I want to connect my standalone computer with my > modem to the internet. > Can you help? > > Thanks > > Jan Brosius