It's been a while since I played with FreeBSD so I figured it was time to give it another shot. I downloaded the HUGE DVD ISO and booted my test Virtual Machine with it. Installed the base system and went to cofigure the network. I tried the DHCP option at first. It seems to have found the DHCP server ok but it wouldn't obtain an IP from after reboot. At that point I decided to go for the manual IP configuration in sysinstall. I set it and rebooted the system. When it was up, I realized that the network wasn't working so I ran "ifconfig" - it showed the correct IP address and the gateway for my de0 adapter but I couldn't ping anything on the same subnet. So I went back to sysinstall and tried configuring the NIC again, rebooted - same thing. If I bring the network adapter up manually with:
ifconfig de0 inet 192.168.1.x netmask 255.255.255.0 up
and add the default router via:
route add default 192.168.1.1
...it works fine. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
J.
ifconfig de0 inet 192.168.1.x netmask 255.255.255.0 up
and add the default router via:
route add default 192.168.1.1
...it works fine. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
J.