You do have to use the serial port to assign interfaces on ALIX boards, since they were changed to vr0, I wish they would apply the m0n0wall patch which fixes because I don't have any motherboards with serial ports.
On Jan 26, 2008 12:53 PM, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am having trouble with this point and would appreciate a example > > configurational file that will allow at least one of the ethernet > > ports to grab an IP via DHCP, or just have a static IP... > > something... anything. The basic problem is that I don't have a > > serial cable anywhere! (I thought I was done with such old > > technologies!) > > by default, the LAN answers as 192.168.1.1 so just take a laptop or > other computer, right it to IP 192.168.1.2, and then configure your > box as you see fit. or you can ssh into it and set the IP that way if > you prefer. > > you don't *have* to have the serial port to do the initial config. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
