From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 06:28:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01543 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 06:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme39.sunshine.net [204.191.205.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA01533 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 06:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA01613; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 05:48:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 05:48:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net To: Jan Brosius cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP how? In-Reply-To: <199709091858.UAA24886@hydrogen.inbe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Jan Brosius wrote: > 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? Set up the dialog box for dynamiic IP addressing. What has worked for me in the past is "0.0.0.0/0" for both Gateway and IP addresses. If your ISP has assigned you suggested addresses for either add the "/0" to them in the dialog box. > Thanks > > Jan Brosius > -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ...." British Columbia *BSD User Directory ==> http://www.cynic.net