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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with setting up TCP.
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:22:34 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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To: The Rawlings <rawlink@jlsc.wpafb.af.mil>

The Rawlings wrote:
> 
> I have got freebsd 2.1.5 installed and I have successfully compiled my
> custom kernel on the first try, but I am somewhat unfamiliar w/ unix.  What
> I want to know is where do I put the TCP information (I.P. address,
> gateway, DNS, etc... )?  I have already got my ether express 16 configured
> and XFree86, but I am stuck at this point.  I know that this is probably
> pretty easy but I'm new.
> 
> Thank you ahead of time for any information you send me.
> 
> K. Rawlings
> 
> P.S. if you could send a reply directly to my mail address that would be
> greatly appreciated.  I don't have access to newsgroups at work which is
> where my FreeBSD machine is at.  mail: rawlink@jlsc.wpafb.af.mil

[CC sent]

Unless some major changes have been made (which I doubt, going from
2.1.0 to 2.1.5), you want to look primarily in /etc/sysconfig and also
in /etc/hosts and etc/resolv.conf . Comments and examples, especially in
/etc/sysconfig , will guide you.
-- 
Ken

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