Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:56:02 -0600 From: "Brandon Young" <bkyoung@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org> Subject: configuring DHCP in FreeBSD 3.4 Message-ID: <000801bf6a92$dee9d8a0$bd297c18@compaq>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Help! BACKGROUND: I had a dual boot machine running Win98 & RedHat Linux. I was introduced to linux 9 months ago. I tried several other distros...didn't like them. I tried OpenBSD - loved it...only, not enough software ported. So, I tried FreeBSD 3.4. PROBLEM: Network. I have a cable modem, and am using a 3C905B ethernet adapter. Everything works fine in Win98 (and worked fine in RedHat). I use DHCP. The exact problem is that in FreeBSD, I can not ping anything outside the Cable Co.'s LAN (i.e. I can ping the Name Server, the Gateway, The DHCP server, etc; but not, say, 129.237.125.112 [an ip # of a computer I happen to know out on the internet], or www.yahoo.com .). I should also point out that I don't have any idea how to configure a network card in FreeBSD. QUESTIONS: can someone please give me very precise instructions on how to configure DHCP & what things to check in troubleshooting? Is it easier to configure during install (It didn't work for me; so I'm locked into using /stand/sysinstall...Configure...Network...Network Interfaces...'no' to 'assume network already configured'...'yes' to 'try configuring with DHCP')?Direct me to some informative man pages/HOWTO's/tutorials...? I am not afraid to edit a config file by hand...just don't know what file to edit, or what to put in it. Brandon Young bkyoung@sunflower.com [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Help!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>BACKGROUND: I had a dual boot machine running Win98 & RedHat Linux. I was introduced to linux 9 months ago. I tried several other distros...didn't like them. I tried OpenBSD - loved it...only, not enough software ported. So, I tried FreeBSD 3.4.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>PROBLEM: Network. I have a cable modem, and am using a 3C905B ethernet adapter. Everything works fine in Win98 (and worked fine in RedHat). I use DHCP. The exact problem is that in FreeBSD, I can not ping anything outside the Cable Co.'s LAN (i.e. I can ping the Name Server, the Gateway, The DHCP server, etc; but not, say, 129.237.125.112 [an ip # of a computer I happen to know out on the internet], or <A href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</A>; .). I should also point out that I don't have any idea how to configure a network card in FreeBSD. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>QUESTIONS: can someone please give me very precise instructions on how to configure DHCP & what things to check in troubleshooting? Is it easier to configure during install (It didn't work for me; so I'm locked into using /stand/sysinstall...Configure...Network...Network Interfaces...'no' to 'assume network already configured'...'yes' to 'try configuring with DHCP')?Direct me to some informative man pages/HOWTO's/tutorials...? I am not afraid to edit a config file by hand...just don't know what file to edit, or what to put in it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brandon Young</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="mailto:bkyoung@sunflower.com">bkyoung@sunflower.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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