Helluva time with a new location

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Mike Szumlinski on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:06:38PM -0400:
> I just moved my FreeBSD box from my home (static IP, working as a router) to
> campus (DHCP, no routing needed). I also pulled one of the two ethernet
> cards (the one with the real world static) to move it to a new box. However,
> I cannot figure out how to tell my machine that:
> 
> A) It don't have 2 cards in it no more
> B) Not to bind addresses to an address that doesn't exist anymore...

You should be able to edit /etc/rc.conf

Remove the 'router_enable="YES"' line.
Remove the ifconfig_ lines for your old ethernet card.
Change the ifconfig_dc0 line to 'ifconfig_dc0="DHCP"'.
Look over the rest of /etc/rc.conf and make sure I didn't miss anything. =)

> I am also getting a "/kernel:dc0: watchdog timout", which I never got
> before. The only NIC in the machine runs off the dc driver...

Not sure about this one.  Google turned up some hits, but the only
solution I saw was people replacing the network card.  Other
solutions may exist, dunno.

> I thought this would be a simple migration, but unfortunately it doesn't
> look like it. All I want to do is get it running on the network so I can
> back up some stuff and do a fresh, clean ftp install.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Install on a new disk and copy stuff over? ;)  Put the disk in
another machine, copy the data.  Print everything out and type it
back in?  Punch cards?  Paper tape?  floppy disks?! =)


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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Michigan State University	
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