Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:57:33 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> To: Olaf Zaplinski <olaf@nichols.de> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org>, "'doc@FreeBSD.org'" <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: a non-newbies question Message-ID: <20000515215733.A53154@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <61329DA77249D211A07800600874FB0D0FAC14@galileo.nichols>; from olaf@nichols.de on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:47:43PM %2B0200 References: <61329DA77249D211A07800600874FB0D0FAC14@galileo.nichols>
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On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:47:43PM +0200, Olaf Zaplinski wrote: > 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. > In /etc/rc.conf, put these lines: ifconfig_fxp0="192.168.0.22" defaultrouter="192.168.0.15" In /etc/resolv.conf, put these lines: domain nichols.de nameserver 192.168.0.15 Please consult the rc.conf(5) and resolv.conf(5) manual page for full details. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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