From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 15:01:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CD616A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 15:01:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6CC43D5F for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 15:01:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 3070 invoked from network); 10 May 2005 15:01:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[83.129.5.15]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 May 2005 15:01:21 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:01:18 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: Marek Pawinski Message-ID: <20050510170118.7b4f0bca@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4280CAD0.5090006@ananzi.co.za> References: <4280CAD0.5090006@ananzi.co.za> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Config X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:01:24 -0000 Marek Pawinski wrote: > I have been playing around with Linux for quite a while and thought i > would give FreeBSD 5.4 a go now that's it out. > > Only hassle i had with a Live FreeBSD distro was setting up the network. > In linux its "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1" what would the command be in > FreeBSD ? On FreeBSD there is no general name for the NIC, it depends on the hardware. Use ifconfig to see which devices are available. > Any thing else to look for ? man ifconfig Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/