From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 15 11:48: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from charybdis.ncc-mannheim.net (charybdis.ncc-mannheim.net [212.120.48.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C7437B555; Mon, 15 May 2000 11:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olaf@nichols.de) Received: from galileo.nichols (galileo.nichols [192.168.0.12]) by charybdis.ncc-mannheim.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA06022; Mon, 15 May 2000 20:47:47 +0200 Received: by galileo.nichols with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 15 May 2000 20:47:47 +0200 Message-ID: <61329DA77249D211A07800600874FB0D0FAC14@galileo.nichols> From: Olaf Zaplinski To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Cc: "'doc@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: a non-newbies question Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:47:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message