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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!blackbush.xlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: standalone PC and hostid Date: 14 May 1996 11:38:39 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4n9rbv$uk@sidhe.hsc.fr> References: <4n7m12$rua@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <4n7m12$rua@fu-berlin.de>, Axel Thimm <thimm@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > what hostid should a standalone PC have? sysctl gives me 0 for the > hostid, in hosts there is a hostid different from 0 for my hostname. You can even change it with sysctl(1). > What is the correct configuration? (BTW the system is not installed from > scratch, but from another freebsd box, so some configs may be wrong, but > I wouldn't know which). You can use the lower 12 or 16 bits of the ethernet address if you want... > Please email me, if possible. You should use the "Followup-To: poster" header when you want that. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-