From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 21:49:15 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA26718 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:49:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA26713 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00249; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:48:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:48:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Lance cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19961220114508.37874c94@accessld.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Lance wrote: > Hi, there: > > My freebsd PC is connected to our intranet. When I root the system and > login as root, I execute the command 'ifconfig ed1' to check its IP > address and didn't find it. So I execute something like 'ifconfig ed1 > 179.208.33.1' to assign it an IP address. Now I am able to ping other > machines from this PC and I can ping it from other machines too. > However, when I shut it down and reboot the machine, its IP address is > lost. Modify /etc/sysconfig. Look for the network_interfaces section, and either add or modify the line to read: network_interfaces="lo0 ed1" ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" ifconfig_ed1="inet 179.208.33.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" Replace with your proper netmask. If you don't have a localhost entry, you can omit it and remove the lo0 from the network_interfaces line. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major