this is what i get when i type the /var/.....
[root@freenas ~]# /var/log/messages bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
and this for the ifconfig :
[root@freenas ~]# ifconfig
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> ether 00:19:66:8d:b1:f1 inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536 nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>