BSD

[w1nn3r]

Hello,
Ive got a LAN, and 3 PC's running on it currently. Two of them(One windows 2k advanced server, and one redhat) pull DHCP ip addresses fine and route perfectly. my BSD box does not. i checked /etc/rosolv.conf and my nameservers are in there along with the correct domain, but i am unable to resolve names to IP addresses on the BSD box. My question is, with ifconfig, how do i set the nameservers for the dc0 interface. i tried ifconfig dc0 nameserver 24.xx.xx.xx but says "Bad value". What is the correct format for this command?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I'm not too clear on what your're trying to do here. Do you mean configure an interface as a dhcp client ? If so, try

/sbin/dhclient dc0

(do 'which dhclient' to find path if different)

Your name resolution would ordinarily be in /etc/resolv.conf but that is never going to work unless your ip routing is correct first. Can you actually ping the ip addresses in your /etc/resolv.conf ?

If you have freebsd, the interface parms are stored in /etc/rc.conf by the /stand/sysinstall utility. You should be able to set things up using the /stand/sysinstall command - choose post-install config, then networking, etc.

Hope this helps