Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:22:36 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com> To: "Remorque" <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: ricardo.m.jesus@criticalsoftware.com, manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP Message-ID: <49B685BC.5060105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400903100803w35f333edkdd46b2c4b0d94ed3@mail.gmail.com> References: <49B66D49.9020709@gmail.com> <49B670EE.6020503@gmail.com> <991123400903100803w35f333edkdd46b2c4b0d94ed3@mail.gmail.com>
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"Remorque" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Jesus > <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com>wrote: > >> manish jain wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). >>> >>> I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP >>> server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in >>> FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to help >>> only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the internet >>> smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him. >>> >>> I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall to >>> configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, it >>> still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP addresses. >>> I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is being used. >>> >>> Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled : >>> 1) Obtain an IP address automatically >>> 2) Obtain DNS server address automatically >>> >>> Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can anyone >>> please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only other piece >>> of information I can provide is the hostname I have been using so far : >>> unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help. >>> >>> Regards >>> Manish Jain >>> invalid.pointer@gmail.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> I think Realtek 8139D fall into re(4) driver, but do take a look at dmesg >> | less to confirm this. >> >> To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your >> system run: >> % ifconfig >> >> You need to edit rc.conf and add the following to have the network card >> configured at boot time: >> ifconfig_re0="DHCP" >> >> To configure the card from the command line simply run: >> # ifconfig re0 dhcp > > > I would do: > > dhclient re0 > > Is the behaviour the same? > > I guess so. If rc.conf is set up with the line ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" then it is no need to run the dhclient command manually. For 8139D the correct driver is rl as Michael Powell pointed out in his reply.
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