From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 16:21: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816C314DB3 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA19887; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:18:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904232318.TAA19887@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: HELP: Novice 'network setup' In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 23, 99 01:20:32 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: youlgok@ibm.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote, > Deleting -hardware. > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 youlgok@ibm.net wrote: > > > It's not static and it uses DHCP. Please help me to configure this. > > Install the isc-dhcp port and set dhclient to run on startup (out of > either /etc/rc.local or a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/). It'll set up > the IP and DNS servers for you. For a newbie, that's all a lot easier said than done. You might try the following website, http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html From my quick look, it contains the same Catch-22 that the above advice has. How do you add a port, which do automatic downloads over the net, when you are not connected to the net? If you have the 4 CD set, you just slip in the right CD and go, but if you are doing it all over the net, get the following, ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/dhcp-2.0b1pl18.tar.gz By whatever means you can. For example, download it in the Win95 you seem to be using, "youlgok." Then log into FreeBSD, copy that file from wherever you put it on the Win95 system to /usr/ports/distfiles, then go to /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp2 and make and install the port. From there, continue to follow the instructions on the above website. I'd like to help more, after all I have a coax cable modem too... But I have a static IP. =) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message