Setting up Internet

[Nikolas Britton]

hide110 wrote:

>Sorry for the silly question, maybe I just haven't really been reading up
>enough, but I have never really delved much into networks.  Here's my current
>setup, all my systems are connected to a small home office router which is in
>turn connected to a cable modem.  With my Windows machines I just plug a cat5
>into an empty slot and it's automatically assigned an IP.  Some are setup as
>static based on MAC and some not; regardless whenever it's plugged in it will
>autodetect.  
>
>During the FreeBSD installation it does not seem to pull any information down
>when I choose DHCP, I foolishly did not enter in the required fields, & just
>went on to setup XWindows.  Where do I modify my network settings?  What
>command would I use?  Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting
>my internet setup?
>
You can do it a few ways, the easyest is to use sysinstall, login as 
root and type in "/stand/sysinstall" and hit enter. This will pop open 
what you remember as the install program, It's under Configure >> 
Networking >> Interfaces.
The next option is to read up on "ifconfig", at a prompt type in "man 
ifconfig", use this knowledge to manually setup your NIC card. After you 
figure out the details for the ifconfig config and get the NIC card 
working, then you'll want to put those values for ifconfig into 
/etc/rc.conf (so read up on that too "man rc.config").

The easyist option for a newbie is to use sysinstall.
also, read this: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html