From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Feb 25 21:23:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA5D37B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:23:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from pink ([24.176.79.249]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010226052121.TCUV29648.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@pink> for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:21:21 -0800 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:20:28 -0800 Reply-To: pkdbeard@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.337) From: paul To: doc@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v337) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: This seems unhelpful Message-Id: <20010226052121.TCUV29648.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@pink> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs/en/books/faq/networking.html#CREATE-DEV-NET I'm stumbling thru an install of freeBSD and I came across what looked = like a helpful FAQ response. Following it's instructions, I found that = rc.network is *not* where you make these changes, but rather = /etc/defaults/rc.conf.=20 Of course, /etc/rc.network says not to edit it without telling someone = about it. /etc/defaults/rc.conf says not to edit it, but instead the = specific rc.* file needed.=20 All I really want is to create an interface to bind my PC card NIC to. = This may be more UNIX than linux -- I'll grant that -- but does it have = to be this obfuscated?=20 I'm used to a simple direct syntax like ifconfig ed0 192.168.2.6 up. Is = that not possible here?=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message