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From: aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: networking problems
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 21:34:21 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
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Thanks a lot. That did it.
On 4 Apr 1997 14:43:15 GMT, brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
wrote:
>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 !
Allen Unrau
Red River Community College
aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca