FreeBSD® Unleashed

Chapter 23. Configuring Basic Networking Services

In This Chapter

• Configuring the Network Card

• Configuring Network Settings with sysinstall

• Configuring Network Settings without sysinstall

• Creating IP Aliases

• Mapping Names to IP Addresses with the /etc/hosts File

• Testing Network Connectivity with Ping

• Configuring DNS with the /etc/resolv.conf File

• A Look at Various Other Network Configuration Files

In the last chapter, we had a crash course in networking, the TCP/IP way. None of it, or very little, was FreeBSD-specific or really told you how to go about setting up your system to do networking properly. What it did do was to lay the groundwork so you could know what's going on in this chapter, in which we'll cover the various tools you can use to configure ...