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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: networking problems
Date: 4 Apr 1997 14:43:15 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <334406ea.2405196@news.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca writes:
> Thanks for your help. After a bit of fiddling, I found that manually
> entering 'ifconfig vx0 {my IP address} got the thing working.
>
> Now - how to make this happen automatically at boot?
Have a look in /etc/sysconfig. Something like
network_interfaces="lo0 vx0"
...
ifconfig_vx0="inet {my IP address}"
> Allen Unrau
> Red River Community College
> aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !