Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress 16 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917205431.5533I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970917150342.12725A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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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
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