[pwolfe1]

I'm having serious problems getting darwin networking configured (Darwin 7.0.1, not OSX)

I have followed the instructions on apples site, but everytime I reboot, the IP address goes back to a DHCP address. I need it to be the static address I give it.

Issue number two: name resolution does not work. period. Again, I have followed all intructions exactly. Am I missing something? Have you all had the same problems?

[OreoCookie]

Could you elaborate a bit more?

A good place to start is the FreeBSD handbook available from freebsd.org. It also shows the basic setup for DNS, DHCP, networking and other stuff.

FreeBSD is Darwin's reference platform.

[pwolfe1]

yeah, I'm sorry. that was kind of weak.

Darwin networking instructions on
http://opendarwin.org/doc/en/article...nfig-in-darwin

instruct me to edit

Code:
/etc/iftab

however I have to create this file. It is not there as the directions say it will be. This has been true with Open Darwin 6.6.2, and with Darwin 7.0.1. So I create the file, but the changes never stick after a reboot. It just keeps going back to some random DHCP address. I have to manually do this every time I reboot:

[code]ifconfig en0 inet {my IP} netmask {my netmask} up]

The router and hostname configuration sticks, as that info resides in /etc/hostconfig, a file that was right where the directions say it will be. But I can never ping anything using name resolution.

I have edited /etc/hosts, and made myself an /etc/resolv.conf. What am I missing?