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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!dhess From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess) Subject: OK, NetBSD installed, now SLIP.... Message-ID: <dhess.744491038@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA Date: 4 Aug 93 19:03:58 GMT Lines: 54 Thanks to all those who replied regarding my NetBSD problems with a DOS partition. Setting the extended DOS partition type to 0xA5 using pfdisk worked just fine and NetBSD installed with no problems. Now I'm having problems getting SLIP to work. I have dialup access to a Cisco SLIP server, which assigns dynamic IP addresses. After I installed NetBSD off the floppies, I dialed up the SLIP server under DOS, entered SLIP mode, and took down the necessary info. (Yes, I know this is possible with tip, but I had no man pages on tip at the time.) I rebooted into NetBSD, and did the following: slattach /dev/com1 38400 ifconfig sl0 36.173.0.91 36.173.0.91 netmask 0xffff0000 route add default 36.173.0.14 36.173.0.91 is the IP address I was assigned by the Cisco server, and 36.173.0.14 is the gateway for this particular address. I then FTPed to agate.berkeley.edu and everything worked just fine. I downloaded all the distribution files, extracted them, and then configed the machine. When prompted for a machine name, I replied with "elsie.stanford.edu" (my machine is a Gateway, and Elsie is the most famous cow I know of); when asked if my machine had an Ethernet interface, I replied no. Then I rethought this and configed again, saying this time that I had an Ethernet interface (I just configured it as sl0, the SLIP interface). This didn't seem to work, but I figured I could correct any problems. Anyways, to make a long story short, I now do this: slattach -s 38400 /dev/com1 ifconfig sl0 36.173.0.91 36.173.0.91 netmask 0xffff0000 reoute add default 36.173.0.14 and I can't get anyone to respond to pings, nor can I FTP or telnet anywhere. This is with the base08, misc08, etc. distributions installed. I have not recompiled the kernel (this is 0.8a GENERICISA). I have tried all sorts of host files, all kinds of hostname.sl0 files, and I just can't get it to work. Does anyone have any advice? BTW, I bring the connection down occasionally, so I won't always have the same IP address; my Cisco server supports BOOTP -- is there a way to get NetBSD to use BOOTP so I don't have to manually change my hosts file each time I get a new address? And does it matter that I've named my machine "elsie", when "elsie" obviously isn't recognized by the nameserver? (The correct name is tip-mpN-ncs-X, where N and X vary according to what port you're assigned upon login to the Cisco server. I have tried setting the myname and hosts files with the correct name but this doesn't seem to work either.) Thanks for all the help, -dwh- dhess@cs.stanford.edu