On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:25:53AM -0500, Joe Magee wrote:
> Good Morning,

loey :)

> The install process allowed me to specify the adapter, IP address, and other
> parameters. However, the computer cannot communicate over the network.

Was the computer able to communicate over the network during the install?

> Investigating the documentation I found indicates I should have a file
> called /etc/ipconfig.XXX (where XXX is my NIC device name) and a file
> /etc/netstart. My system has neither of these files.

At the end of the install if you specified that netbsd should put network
configuration information into /etc then it will create these files for you.

I think you've got slightly old documentation, as far as I can remember
/etc/netstart has been replaced with /etc/rc.d/network as part of the new
modular startup system.

You can create /etc/ifconfig.XXX yourself, mine is called /etc/ifconfig.ex0
(since my ethernet adaptor is called ex0) (you can check this using 'dmesg').
The contents are:

inet up 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00

you can look up the syntax of the ifconfig command with 'man ifconfig'.

> The documentation seems to assume my system already has those files. I would
> like to find a howto or other information on how to create or obtain those
> files and any others I may need to put this computer on my network. I am
> using static IP addresses and connect to the Internet through a router.

You'll need to put the IP address of your router into /etc/mygate
and then reboot (or type 'route add default <ipaddress>' if you don't want
to reboot.)

The documentation can be found in 'man ifconfig', 'man route'
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/

 - Chris

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