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From: vincento@knoware.nl (Vincent Ossewaarde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to configure additional network interfaces
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 02:47:16 GMT
Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses
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tom@oliverdesign.com (Thomas B. Fox) wrote:

>		

>On the sysinstall menu there is an option to configure additional net
>interfaces. This option doesn't seem to work for me. How can I 
>manually configure an interface? The system identifies my devices
>at bootup okay but won't configure them for me. 

Hi,

first of all, the sysinstall doesn't do the trick for me neither. You
can do it by hand, using the ifconfig-command for setting your
network-parameters. For changing hardware-configurations, you'll have
to recompile your kernel.

Vincent