From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 13:06:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA06566 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06558 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA16952 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:05:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:05:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: EtherExpress 16 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After a little tinkering I have come to the conclusion that my problem with the card results from our IP addresses on the net being dynamically assigned. Because I do not have an IP I did not have one entered in the ifconfig_ie0 line. When I put in a dummy address the card still registers the network, but of course I cannot use that address. Is there anyway to get this to work with a dynamic address? Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************