Re: network configuration help -- using ncutil

Winston Ford <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On reboot:

1. Does the method remain Manual?
2. What shows up as ip-address?

On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Brian Sammon wrote:

> I want to manually configure my Lombard running OpenDarwin 7.2.1 box 
> with a
> static IP.
> I've gone through the ncutil documentation, and I have what appears to 
> be a
> correct configuration, but en0 never has a IP address after I reboot.
> I'm currently running the version of ncutil that comes with OpenDarwin 
> 7.2.1.
> I'm going to try building ncutil 2.1.2 and see if that makes any 
> difference,
> but maybe there's something I've overlooked.
> Below are the settings I've made in ncutil.  Are there any other 
> settings that
> I should be checking?
>
> /
>   current-location home
> /home
>   service-order  0    Built-in Ethernet
> /home/Built-in Ethernet
>   inactive false
> /home/Built-in Ethernet/Ethernet
>   inactive false
> /home/Built-in Ethernet/Interface
>   inactive false
>   device-name en0
>   hardware Ethernet
>   type Ethernet
>   sub-type
> /home/Built-in Ethernet/IPv4
>   method Manual
>   ip-address
>  10.0.0.12
>   subnet-mask
>  255.0.0.0
>   router 10.0.0.9
> /home/Built-in Ethernet/PPP
>
> When I do "ifconfig" I get
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet6 fe80::1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
> stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
> en0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         tunnel inet  -->
>         ether 00:50:e4:16:10:34
>         media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
>         supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 
> 10baseT/UTP
> <
> full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex>
>
>
>
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