And the answer is: NO, at least in my case. Problem solved. I am sending this for the benefit of any other newbee like me having the same problem.
Problem description: * have two machines connected to the Internet through a cable/DSL router. * One of them is running a freshly installed, not yet custom configured, FreeBSD 4.7, with the network configured to try DHCP. * the other runs another OS. * The boxes are assigned the 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.101 addresses by the router. * They can ping each other. * The FBSD machine cannot get to the Internet, but the other machine can. Solution that worked for me: * Find out the internal IP address of your router. In my case it is 192.168.1.1 * Then add to /etc/rc.conf a line similar to this: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" using the correct address. * Also, make sure that something like the following is present: ifconfig_xxx="DHCP" where xxx is the name of your network interface (dc0 in my case, use ifconfig to find out) (Kevin: Thank you for your messages) Question: What is the standard way to re-start the network interface to make sure that config files like rc.conf are read anew after being modified? Would ifconfig dc0 down ifconfig dc0 up do that? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
