From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 20:56:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02888 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02881 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05630; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jonathan Fosburgh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress 16 In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > 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? ``dynamic'' in what sense? Does your network use DHCP, BOOTP or what? Have you considered applying to your network admin to have a static address for your computer? We have spare space in our subnets here at the UO to allocate some static addresses. The rest are done by DHCP. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo