From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 20:24:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10874 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:24:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freight.msn.bc.ca (pc-21656.bc.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.126.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10854 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (bpepa@localhost) by freight.msn.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA01344; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:26:05 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Pepa To: Brent Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing Free BDS with the WAVE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Brent Johnson wrote: > > > Before you can get anywhere, we need to find the card. Once that's found, > then we can go on to configuring the system to talk to your network. Just to expand on Doug's note, make sure you have NO other computers sharing the Wave through a hub. As someone told me, the Wave will configure itself to the first registered MAC Address (Ethernet Hardware Address) it finds. If it finds another computer, it will block all traffic from all except the one address it finds... > (Preview: you'll have to install the WIDE DHCP client from the CD or FTP > site.) Ah, usually Rogers gives you a Static IP. You may not need the DHCP client. (Rogers is our ISP for the Cable Modems) Talk to you soon, Ben