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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: impossible to install 952010-SNAP
Date: 31 Oct 1995 16:45:46 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <475jrq$fb4@helena.MT.net>
References: <46nfmm$qnt@upsn6.u-psud.fr> <46r2rf$83g@overload.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <46r2rf$83g@overload.lbl.gov>,
Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote:
>>	After rebooting, I see: 
>>	"lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>		inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 "
>>	What is lo0?, my ethercard is a WD8003E that works with previous
>>	FBSD.

It's the loopback interface.  This is used on all unix machines.

>>	Then, "myname.my.domain: bad value " and the result is diagnostics
>>	whith the installation of sendmail and .....

This is a problem with the installation stuff.

>The problem is not depend on motherboards. Also, I guess it is not depneded on
>ethercard or driver since you and I have different ethercard.

The install stuff didn't write the correct information into /etc/hosts,
and/or didn't write stuff into /etc/sysconfig.

>Some network code could be broken. In my case, it finds my ethercard, but
>configured the interface to nothing. Although, I can manually do ifconfig
>after booting, the ethernet interface cannot see further than one hop.

This stuff should be fixed in the latest SNAP.


Nate
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