From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jan 29 12:54: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D39CF14A2A for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:54:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 9179 invoked by uid 0); 29 Jan 2000 20:53:56 -0000 Received: from dhcp-199-210.dsl.utexas.edu (HELO oscar-dsl) (128.83.199.210) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 29 Jan 2000 20:53:56 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000129145802.00c08af0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:01:31 -0600 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org, bkyoung@falcon.cc.ukans.edu From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: configuring DHCP in FreeBSD 3.4 In-Reply-To: <000801bf6a92$dee9d8a0$bd297c18@compaq> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brandon, You can't ping anything outside the cable company's LAN but can you access any outside resources? For example, can you ftp to any outside sites? Can you telnet or use lynx to other sites? I ask because sometimes some network organizations block pings or filter for pings in order to avoid ping floods. As for configuring your card for DHCP, I still use /stand/sysinstall and just answer yes for DHCP. When you've booted, you can run "ifconfig -a" to see what address your machine received. Oscar At 01:56 PM 1/29/00 -0600, Brandon Young, you wrote: >Help! > >BACKGROUND: I had a dual boot machine running Win98 & RedHat Linux. I was >introduced to linux 9 months ago. I tried several other distros...didn't >like them. I tried OpenBSD - loved it...only, not enough software >ported. So, I tried FreeBSD 3.4. > >PROBLEM: Network. I have a cable modem, and am using a 3C905B ethernet >adapter. Everything works fine in Win98 (and worked fine in RedHat). I >use DHCP. The exact problem is that in FreeBSD, I can not ping anything >outside the Cable Co.'s LAN (i.e. I can ping the Name Server, the Gateway, >The DHCP server, etc; but not, say, 129.237.125.112 [an ip # of a computer >I happen to know out on the internet], or >www.yahoo.com .). I should also point out that I >don't have any idea how to configure a network card in FreeBSD. > >QUESTIONS: can someone please give me very precise instructions on how to >configure DHCP & what things to check in troubleshooting? Is it easier to >configure during install (It didn't work for me; so I'm locked into using >/stand/sysinstall...Configure...Network...Network Interfaces...'no' to >'assume network already configured'...'yes' to 'try configuring with >DHCP')?Direct me to some informative man pages/HOWTO's/tutorials...? I am >not afraid to edit a config file by hand...just don't know what file to >edit, or what to put in it. > >Brandon Young >bkyoung@sunflower.com > "Don't believe the hype" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message