Network configuration in FreeBSD

[आशीष Ashish]

,--[ On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote:
| I did have an IP address assigned to my ethernet interface( using the
| ifconfig command)  but I'm unable to ping anybody in my LAN.

In the 'ifconfig -a' output you posted earlier, the 'em0' (your desired 
interface) interface neither has any IP address assigned to it, nor its UP . 
So, if you've assigned an IP address to 'em0', then also make sure its UP, by 
doing 'ifconfig em0 up' .

HTH
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल                      http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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