freebsd stable - Jan 2011 - Error produced by static ip setting: ifconfig: inet: bad value

List,

Hi.

I use following setting for my wireless networking enviroment:

    ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey
1:0x1111111111 DHCP"

But I don't like DHCP and want to use static ip, so I tried:

    ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey
1:0x1111111111 inet 192.168.1.144  netmask 255.255.255.0"

But the setting makes BSD networking not working anymore, and when the
system starts up, there's an error message:

    ifconfig: inet: bad value

What's wrong? How to use static ip in my wireless networking?

-- 
Regards,
Yue Wu

Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University
No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:57:29PM +0800, Yue Wu wrote:
> List,
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I use following setting for my wireless networking enviroment:
> 
>     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
wepkey 1:0x1111111111 DHCP"
> 
> But I don't like DHCP and want to use static ip, so I tried:
> 
>     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
wepkey 1:0x1111111111 inet 192.168.1.144  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> But the setting makes BSD networking not working anymore, and when the
> system starts up, there's an error message:
> 
>     ifconfig: inet: bad value
> 
> What's wrong? How to use static ip in my wireless networking?
> 
The setting:

    ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.1.111 netmask 255.255.255.0 mode 11g bssid
my:ssid wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x1111111111"

works for me, don't know why, maybe the inet string must be put at
the head of the value?

-- 
Regards,
Yue Wu

Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University
No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China

On Monday, January 31, 2011 13:57:29 Yue Wu wrote:
> List,
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I use following setting for my wireless networking enviroment:
> 
>     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:0x1111111111 DHCP"
> 
> But I don't like DHCP and want to use static ip, so I tried:
> 
>     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:0x1111111111 inet 192.168.1.144  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> But the setting makes BSD networking not working anymore, and when
> the system starts up, there's an error message:
> 
>     ifconfig: inet: bad value
> 
> What's wrong? How to use static ip in my wireless networking?
Remove the 'inet', it isn't required.

-- 
Bernhard

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:50:25PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt
wrote:
> On Monday, January 31, 2011 13:57:29 Yue Wu wrote:
> > List,
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I use following setting for my wireless networking enviroment:
> > 
> >     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
> > wepkey 1:0x1111111111 DHCP"
> > 
> > But I don't like DHCP and want to use static ip, so I tried:
> > 
> >     ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g bssid my:bssid wepmode on weptxkey 1
> > wepkey 1:0x1111111111 inet 192.168.1.144  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > 
> > But the setting makes BSD networking not working anymore, and when
> > the system starts up, there's an error message:
> > 
> >     ifconfig: inet: bad value
> > 
> > What's wrong? How to use static ip in my wireless networking?
> 
> Remove the 'inet', it isn't required.
> 
Thanks Schmidt, I haven't tried with your advice because the issue has
gone after I put the `inet' in front of the value of ifconfig_wlan0, I
will take a note for your hint and try it next time ;p

p.s., examples in the handbook [1] have the `inet', why?

[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

-- 
Regards,
Yue Wu

Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University
No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China