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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD - routing and slip
Date: 10 Jan 1994 15:42:25 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
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In article <CJExBA.G1v@mv.mv.com>, Coranth Gryphon <shaman@mv.mv.com> wrote:
}Hi. I have three networking querstions for NetBSD 0.9:
}
}1)  How can I tell it to use the named-server on a nother machine
}(I can't seem to configure my named right)
}
}2) How do I get it to route from the local network (ethernet) which
}it can talk to fine, to the outside world via slip (which it already
}does fine). All the local machines know that they should route through
}it, I just can't figure out how to tell it to pass things on.
}
}3) Everyonce in a while, I get "/dev/com1: silo overflow" messages.
}They do not appear (in small chunks) to affect anything.
}But get yoo many of them at once, and ver soo all network
}(or maybe just all slip-related) tasks fail with "no buffer space available"
}
}Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
}


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-- 
TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC Applications Programming Branch
US Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, NE
burgessd@j64.stratcom.af.mil