From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 10:51:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7EF37B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@cgmd76206.chello.nl) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 96F6814; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:51:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:51:32 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Khaleel Ahmed Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting IP address of a machine Message-ID: <20010401195132.Q490@cgmd76206.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Khaleel Ahmed , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000701c0bad2$5cf914a0$c7b0c5cb@king> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c0bad2$5cf914a0$c7b0c5cb@king>; from cybermen@vsnl.com on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:07:01PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:07:01PM +0530, Khaleel Ahmed wrote: > Could any one help me set the IP address of the machine on FreeBSD Try ifconfig, a la "ifconfig xl0 200.12.34.56 netmask 255.255.255.0". But better is to place it in /etc/rc.conf so it is set during bootup. When you installed FreeBSD, you were asked for an IP address already, so the information should be there. "man rc.conf" will help you also. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message