shascal wrote:
> 
> Assuming your /etc/rc.conf, /etc/hosts, & /etc/resolv.conf are configured 
> properly for your site, you just need to configure your ethernet 
> interface. Your ethernet interface will depend on what kind of ethernet 
> card you have. I have a Quadra 650, which uses the onboard sonic ethernet 
> adapter. When NetBSD boots up, the system information that scrolls past 
> includes the line...
> 
> sn0 at obio0 address 08:00:07:46:01:21
> 
> ...which tells me how the system is seeing my ethernet card. The address 
> part is my unique ethernet address. To find out more about the various 
> ethernet interfaces NetBSD supports, type 'apropos ethernet' at the 
> command prompt to get a list of man pages to read. To configure the card 
> with an IP address, I type...
> 
> ifconfig sn0 130.38.103.88
> 
> ..., which I have since tacked on to the end of my /etc/netstart file to 
> make sure it happens automatically at boot.

Ummm...the proper way to do this is to create either /etc/hostname.sn0 or
/etc/ifconfig.sn0, depending on how old your config files are.  If you
look at /etc/netstart, it should tell you which it is looking for.  If
you're using the older (hostname.sn0) style, there is a howto on puma
discussing how a MacOS ethernet setup maps to a NetBSD ethernet setup.  If
you're using the newer (ifconfig.sn0) style, you simply put the arguments
to ifconfig in the file.  At boot time, /etc/netstart will automatically
configure every interface it can find which has an
/etc/{hostname,ifconfig}.{ae,sn}[0-9] file.  Wow, what mess :-)

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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