How do I specify the static ip address in the kernel config?

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Tue Oct 23 08:54:19 PDT 2007


On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:29:19 -0600 (MDT)
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> In message: <20071023101935.GA77588 at ci0.org>
>             Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd at ci0.org> writes:
> : On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:47:33PM -0400, rtos wrote:
> : > Hi,
> : > 
> : > This is how I boot my NetBSD board and would like to do the same for FreeBSD. 
> : > Does FreeBSD have similar options.
> : > 
> : > options    NFS_BOOT_BOOTSTATIC
> : > options    NFS_BOOTSTATIC_MYIP="\"192.168.1.4\""
> : > options    NFS_BOOTSTATIC_GWIP="\"192.168.1.1\""
> : > options    NFS_BOOTSTATIC_MASK="\"255.255.255.0\""
> : > options    NFS_BOOTSTATIC_SERVADDR="\"192.168.1.1\""
> : > options    NFS_BOOTSTATIC_SERVER="\"192.168.1.1:/exported/armrootfs\""
> : > 
> : > Thanks,
> : > rtos
> : 
> : Hi,
> : 
> : I may be wrong, but I'm afraid there's no such options in FreeBSD. I've 
> : always used BOOTP for this.
> 
> I saw this and thought it would make a good addition.
> 

It would be even nicer if one could pass things like this on the command line
a la Linux. But that's probably too much to expect w/o lots of kernel mods.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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