nixCraft

Howto freebsd configure nic? i know little bit linux but freebsd seems to be diffrent any help is respected from all of u!

cheers

bob

You can configure nic using sysinstall command.

Method # 1
At sysinstall main menu select
Configure > Networking

Select Interface and press space bar > Select your ethernet card

It will ask for IPV6, if you need IPV6 say yes lese no

Next it will ask about DHCP server, again if you wanna IP address from DHCP server then just click yet else NO

If you selected No then you need to assign IP, Domain, hostname, Gateway, DNS and other information.


Method # 2
This need editing of configuration file. To setup up ip permanently open file /etc/rc.conf ; add/modify network entries:
And setup values as follows:
Replace lnc0 with your interface name, interface name can be Obtained using ifconfig -a command

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I have a 3 static IP from my ISP, how can I make FBSD 7.2 to work on one of these static IP as DHCP, NAT and Firewall and to switch all 3 computers in LAN. My ISP also have a static IP. I gave one of these IP to FBSD (computer who had that IP was switched off), it could ping only my ISP gateway. I made

/etc/resolv.conf file and added DNS servers:
search ISP gateway IP (works as DNS)
nameserver ISP gateway IP
nameserver another ISP DNS IP

added to
/etc/rc.conf
hostname="gateway.fbsdfreeco.com"
ifconfig (netcard int name)= "inet (IP adress) netmask (my netmask)"

maybe u could write how to make FBSD as NAT, DHCP and Firewall