From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 20:28:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDCE37B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f3A4Wr133703; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:32:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:32:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Roadrunner Cable Modem In-Reply-To: <01040919285500.00934@gunnar.weygold.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold wrote: > Ok, I've got a laptop running WindowsME hooked to a hub > along with a FreeBSD box and a Windows 2000 Pro box. All > machines can see eachother and copy files back and forth. > > Samba and smbfs setup was a piece of cake. I must say smbfs > was easier to setup and use than sharity-light which I > simply could not connect with. > > Anyway, a Roadrunner cable modem will be connected to the > 2000 box. What, if anything, will I need to do for the BSD > box to use the cable modem if Roadrunner uses DHCP instead > of a static IP? In /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_de0="DHCP" de0 is your outside interface, ie the one connected to the RR modem. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message