ifconfig issues

[Grzegorz Czaplinski]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:27:14PM +0100, Raakesh Tailor wrote:
> Hi guys iv set up freebsd at home but am having problems configuring the
> network card 
> 
> iv tried the bvelow commands but im unable to ping my router
> 
> Echo Ifconfig lo0 192.168.254.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.168.254.255 up >> /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Echo Route add -net default gw 192.168.254.254 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 >>
> /etc/rc.conf
> 

Hi,
who did tell you to set a network interface like that?
You should read:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html


Cheers,
	gregory
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