Paul Schmehl presented these words - circa 3/11/08 1:02 PM->
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 19:25:31 +0000 Andy Watts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi People
l downloaded FreeBSD 6.3 the other day out of curiosity..
The installation started ok but it all went wrong when it came to
connecting
to the internet through my wired router
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html
l'm really not sure what entries to put in fig 2-29 that will allow my
connection.
My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My router's address is 192.168.1.1 and running ifconfig on my linux
machine
gives the following:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:6C:E2:58:25 inet
addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::201:6cff:fee2:5825/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5894 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4645 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4431375 (4.2 MB) TX bytes:616025 (601.5 KB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xe400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1
Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5380 (5.2 KB) TX bytes:5380 (5.2 KB)
Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated
If your router works like most do (and it appears that it does from the
IP your linux box is getting), all you need to do is put this into
/etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
(or rerun sysinstall and configure your ethernet card to do dhcp.)
# sysinstall
Choose Configure/Networking/Interfaces and set your NIC to do dhcp.
Hmmm, he doesn't need to select DHCP (or maybe he already has) since the
interface (eth0) already has an assigned IP address on 192.168.1.0
network (192.168.1.4). Can you ping the router's IP address ('ping
192.168.1.1')? If so then you need to look at your router's external
IP address (the one that is actually visible to the Internet via your
ISP provided IP address).
Patrick
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