Setting network interface to DHCP

[jemate18]

Hello guys!

When I installed FreeBSD 7.1, I configured my network interface (sis0) with static IP address.

How do I change it to DHCP?

One more question, on my laptop it is sis0 on my desktop it is xl0

does the name of the network interface depend on the hardware? is not always like eth0 the way GNU/Linux does?

[ctaranotte]

Hello guys!

When I installed FreeBSD 7.1, I configured my network interface (sis0) with static IP address.

How do I change it to DHCP?

You have the choice:
# dhclient sis0
or in rc.conf
ifconfig_sis0 = "DHCP"


One more question, on my laptop it is sis0 on my desktop it is xl0

does the name of the network interface depend on the hardware? is not always like eth0 the way GNU/Linux does?

FreeBSD does not have such thing as eth or wifi.

The name of you interface is either the driver name plus a number or something like van, bridge, gif or tun plus a number.

Read the man pages for van, bridge, gif and tun.

[danger@]

put the following line to the /etc/rc.conf file:

ifconfig_sis0="DHCP"

As of the other question, yes. The name of the device depends on the device driver it uses. For xl NICs it's RealTek based chips and so on...

[jemate18]

Thank you guys.. I have tried it and it worked.. This thread is solved...