From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 5:51:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.de (mailout03.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A89537BA36 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meerwaldt@t-online.de) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12f08u-000810-02; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:51:44 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (320044045192-0001@[62.157.22.133]) by fwd02.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12f08e-1E2qZ6C; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:51:28 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (server.wes.mee.com [192.168.1.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/FreeBSD V4.0) with ESMTP id TAA01136; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:51:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:51:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt) To: jfreeze@qx.net Cc: Steve Hovey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Need help with static IP In-Reply-To: <77363439109C.AAA4C18@mail2.qx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320044045192-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there! > I added > > defaultgateway=”GATEWAY.IP.ADDRESS” > > to /etc/rc.conf. The only problem is that I had to reboot for it to take affect. You have to set the parameters manually (perhaps there's another way, but I know that this way works). Your parameter is to set with route (I suppose). So. View your routing table with netstat -r and then add the gateway route add ...... > > How do I get my system to reread from /etc/rc.conf without rebooting? Kind regards, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message