From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 18 10:34:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA21483 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21461 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA16626; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:33:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:33:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: Doug White 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, Doug White wrote: > 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 > I talked to one of the sysadmins here and he said that the IP is assigned everytime the computer tries to connect to the net. There is no way to get a static address at least that he knew of. I will be talking to someone else about this later so hopefully I can get some good news in that respect, but the guy I talked to said he thinks it is using DHCP.