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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 1998 02:08:59 -0800
From:      brian@litzinger.com
To:        junkmale@xtra.co.nz, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP pendantic primer misses a step?
Message-ID:  <19981115020859.A7836@top.worldcontrol.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811150701.UAA16239@witch.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 08:02:56PM %2B1300
References:  <199811150605.TAA05897@witch.xtra.co.nz> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142255040.21054-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <199811150701.UAA16239@witch.xtra.co.nz>

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> > >Tonight I helped a chap out getting his network card running.  He
> > >couldn't get ifconfig to show an IP address.  He claimed to be doing
> > >everything in the manual.  I suggested he do the following manually:
> > >
> > >ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.98 255.255.255.0
> > >
> > >>From then, it worked.
> > >
> > >Is this a step which must be first done manually?

> Sorry.  I omitted that point in my original post.  The user had something 
> like:
> 
> ifconfig_ed1="inet 192.168.0.98  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> in /etc/rc.conf.  But until the above mentioned step was done manually, 
> ifconfig -a did not show an IP address.

I guessing but in rc.conf you generally have to set:

network_interfaces="lo0 ed1"     # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback).

ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.
ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.0.98  netmask 255.255.255.0"

Did you add ed1 to network_interfaces?

I do not know if all version of FreeBSD require that, but at least
some do.

-- 
Brian Litzinger <brian@litzinger.com>

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