Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Timo Schoeler wrote:
> 
>> i have a customers' machine located in a huge german hosting company,
>> and there's a little howto [1] for installing NetBSD there (the machine
>> has console access :)
>>
>> however, i just can't get the network set up (from within sysint or on
>> the shell) to get it connect to the outside world (TM).
> 
> 
> If dhclient is handy, try running that.

dhcp is supposed to be available (AFAIK), but known not to work (for
whatever reasons).

> Otherwise, can you ping
> anything on your local subnet, such as the router?

no.

> If no, what does ifconfig say?  Try:
> 
>    ifconfig __en0__ inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 0xffffff00

thanks, i'll have a look at that tomorrow morning; however, the netmask
is a weird 0xffffffff (see the URL referenced in my first mail). __en0__
means $interface or MAC address?

> 
> If yes, consider:
> 
>    route add default 1.2.3.1
> 
> [ Substitute appropriate values for your local network & router IP. ]

thanks,

timo