From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 8:29:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB77152E2 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA28870; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:47:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:47:14 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kim Heise Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP & Local Name change In-Reply-To: <008f01be8ff1$a7a28990$8f6b7797@uswc.uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Kim Heise wrote: > Good Day Sir/Madam, > > I am a Unix newbie and have just installed FreeBSD 3.1 and would like to change the default IP from 127.0.0.1 > to 167.52.0.5. Also I would like to change the local name to Sonar. > > I am sure you have answered this questions hundreds of times but I could not find any information regarding this in the online userguide. > > I did try and edit /etc/hosts use /stand/sysinstall , select: x x c Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD x x then: x x 6 Networking Configure additional network services x x then: x x [ ] Interfaces Configure additional network interfaces x x then take a look at /etc/rc.conf to see what the installer did for you. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message