DHCP to Static

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> Just went and got an extra NIC card, and ordered static ip address and upgraded my service. I have a quick question. If I am changing from dhcp to static is there anything that I need to do in order to take advantage of static or to setup static? Always had dhcp up until now. Not sure if I have to do anything to setup static. Thanks

Well, you have to provide all of the configuration info usually
supplied by DHCP yourself.  That's not just the IP number and netmask,
but includes such things as the default gateway, the IP numbers of the
DNS servers you should be using, and static routes and probably a few
other things as well.

All of this stuff can be set by editing a few files in /etc --
/etc/resolv.conf for the DNS stuff (see resolv.conf(5) for
instructions), and /etc/rc.conf for just about everything else (See
rc.conf(5) and look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf for some examples).

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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