On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone...for the first time. > > I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer > because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected > by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. > > I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything > about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer > seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that > the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. > > FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it > boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to "tell DHCP server to > assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the > sl0 network interface? > > What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be > >appreciated. Thanks!
Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such as ISC-DHCP for your LAN. Secondly, the quick and easy way to change around things so that sl0 pulls an IP is to run /stand/sysinstall and reconfigure your Network Interfaces. You could also edit rc.conf manually and set up the sl0 interface that way, to either pull a static or dynamic IP. Is sl0 internal or external? Is the FreeBSD box going to NAT for your second computer? -- -Tomas Quintero _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
