Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP
"Remorque" wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Jesus wrote: manish jain wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to help only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the internet smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him. I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall to configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, it still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP addresses. I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is being used. Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled : 1) Obtain an IP address automatically 2) Obtain DNS server address automatically Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can anyone please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only other piece of information I can provide is the hostname I have been using so far : unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain Thanks in advance for any help. Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I think Realtek 8139D fall into re(4) driver, but do take a look at dmesg | less to confirm this. To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your system run: % ifconfig You need to edit rc.conf and add the following to have the network card configured at boot time: ifconfig_re0="DHCP" To configure the card from the command line simply run: # ifconfig re0 dhcp I would do: dhclient re0 Is the behaviour the same? I guess so. If rc.conf is set up with the line ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" then it is no need to run the dhclient command manually. For 8139D the correct driver is rl as Michael Powell pointed out in his reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Jesus wrote: > manish jain wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). >> >> I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP >> server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in >> FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to help >> only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the internet >> smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him. >> >> I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall to >> configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, it >> still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP addresses. >> I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is being used. >> >> Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled : >> 1) Obtain an IP address automatically >> 2) Obtain DNS server address automatically >> >> Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can anyone >> please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only other piece >> of information I can provide is the hostname I have been using so far : >> unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain >> >> Thanks in advance for any help. >> >> Regards >> Manish Jain >> invalid.poin...@gmail.com >> >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >> I think Realtek 8139D fall into re(4) driver, but do take a look at dmesg > | less to confirm this. > > To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your > system run: > % ifconfig > > You need to edit rc.conf and add the following to have the network card > configured at boot time: > ifconfig_re0="DHCP" > > To configure the card from the command line simply run: > # ifconfig re0 dhcp I would do: dhclient re0 Is the behaviour the same? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby." - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP
manish jain wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). > > I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP > server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in > FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to > help only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the > internet smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him. > > I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall > to configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, > it still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP > addresses. I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is > being used. > > Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled : > 1) Obtain an IP address automatically > 2) Obtain DNS server address automatically > > Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can > anyone please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only > other piece of information I can provide is the hostname I have been > using so far : unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Regards > Manish Jain > invalid.poin...@gmail.com > Try placing in /etc/rc.conf with an editor such as vi and reboot: network_interfaces="AUTO" ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" If you're exceedingly lucky that will get you started. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP
manish jain wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to help only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the internet smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him. I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall to configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, it still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP addresses. I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is being used. Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled : 1) Obtain an IP address automatically 2) Obtain DNS server address automatically Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can anyone please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only other piece of information I can provide is the hostname I have been using so far : unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain Thanks in advance for any help. Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I think Realtek 8139D fall into re(4) driver, but do take a look at dmesg | less to confirm this. To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your system run: % ifconfig You need to edit rc.conf and add the following to have the network card configured at boot time: ifconfig_re0="DHCP" To configure the card from the command line simply run: # ifconfig re0 dhcp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
