Network Config

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Tue May 10 08:01:24 PDT 2005


Marek Pawinski <pawinski at ananzi.co.za> wrote:

> I have been playing around with Linux for quite a while and thought i
> would give FreeBSD 5.4 a go now that's it out.
> 
> Only hassle i had with a Live FreeBSD distro was setting up the network.
> In linux its "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1" what would the command be in
> FreeBSD ?

On FreeBSD there is no general name for the NIC,
it depends on the hardware.

Use ifconfig to see which devices are available.

> Any thing else to look for ?

man ifconfig
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Fabian
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