Freebsd networking
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Documentation
freebsd handbook: network communication https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/partiv/
Locations
/etc/rc.conf
persist network configuration /etc/resolv.conf
DNS config
Tools
FreeBSD ifconfig
Usage
Manual Connection
# Starting a manual network connection from CLI sudo route add default 192.168.1.1 # Set path to your router ifconfig # find interface you want ifconfig em0 up # set interface 'up' dhclient em0 # (equivalent of DHCPCD, requests IP address)
Examples
Static IPV4
# /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.220 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"# If you still are not able to get outside the internal # network, try deleting and re-adding the default router from CLI route delete default route add default 192.168.1.1 # The following should restart your internet connection. ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0IP Aliases
Assign multiple IP addresses to a network interface.
commonly used for assigning IPs to jails.# /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_em0_alias0="192.168.1.221/24" ifconfig_em0_alias1="192.168.1.222/24"