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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3248511A.61CA@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bba996$37f65660$ef16abc7@pcrawlings.jlsc.wpafb.af.mil> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) 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 Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |