Configuring the Network Card
As you learned in the last chapter, a computer can have multiple Ethernet cards (interfaces), and each of these cards can have multiple IP addresses and related settings. The convention is for each machine to have one Ethernet card with one IP address, but there’s no reason to limit yourself in that regard. This chapter shows you how to set up as many simultaneously installed cards as you like. You also learn how to bind as many IP addresses to each card as you see fit.
The first step is to make sure you have at least one Ethernet card that FreeBSD will work with. Table 23.1 lists all the cards (more specifically, chipsets—cards from different manufacturers often use standardized chipsets that FreeBSD recognizes) ...
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