Greetings,

I'm a long time FreeBSD user and decided to try GhostBSD. For some reason, I cannot set a static IP in rc.conf. I'm using in rc.conf:

ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 0xffffff00"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"

When I boot, neither the IP address and netmask are set on bge0, I have to manually set them in the terminal. Also, the default route isn't set. What's going on in GhostBSD?

Doesn't answer your question directly. I have things setup using DHCP, and run a script when I am home to set a static IP;

cat bin/01_init.sh
#!/bin/sh

sudo ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.1.28 netmask 255.255.255.0
sudo route delete default ; sudo route add default 192.168.1.254



Nor perfect, but .............

I also posted the link to this query inside the telegram channel

I just don't understand why my rc.conf settings aren't working. I've looked through the documentation and as far as I can see, GhostBSD uses /etc/rc.conf.

You might try the utility in FreeBSD.
# sudo bsdconfig networking
It's one of the tools installed by default.
It will write to the conf files.
... Not sure if the start-up app networkmgr conflicts...

yeah I tried bsdconfig and it wrote the same lines in rc.conf that I did by hand and the network interface is not getting configured during boot up

Hi all,
these settings are working on my devices
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/etc/rc.conf
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ifconfig_bge0="inet 10.200.5.29 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="10.200.5.250"
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are you sure that your adapter is beg0 or maybe another like em0 ?
and
why are you using these strange chars for your netmask value?
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do you have maybe a 2nd entry for ifconfig in your rc.conf file?
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just trying to give an example that works on my devices.
Regards Arnold