Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between

I found that I had a problem with my Nexentastor CE appliance build and needed to do some configuration by the command line – the quickest way to do this is to logon as root (using the password you specified during the installer)

Then type setup, that gives you a quick access way to move through the various configuration options and look at parameters.

You can also reboot/shutdown from here.

Note if you are trying a DHCP configuration it doesn’t seem to allow ifconfig commands even if you specify the bge0 interface, but you can view the properties from the setup utility, or as a quick short-cut type

setup network interface show

nmc@v0idsan2:/$ setup
Option ?  network
Option ?  interface
Option ?  show
==== Interfaces ====
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.2.4 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
ether 78:e7:d1:b1:44:1f
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252 index 1
inet6 ::1/128

nmc@v0idsan2:/$ setup network interface show
==== Interfaces ====
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.2.4 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
ether 78:e7:d1:b1:44:1f
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252 index 1
inet6 ::1/128

nmc@v0idsan2:/$