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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c503 switch from 10Base2 to 10Base5? Date: 16 May 1996 17:29:24 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4nfl54$8p@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Karl_Shepard.30.0008F0D8@ccm.jf.intel.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Karl Shepard (Karl_Shepard@ccm.jf.intel.com) wrote: : I want my FreeBSD 2.1 box to start talking through the AUI port. Iwas set up : originally to use thinnet. I used IFCONFIG to do the LINK2 and after fooling : with it for several hours, I was able to get it to work. : The problem is that it will not see anything on boot not even its own lopback : address and complains there is no route to the network. It was working fine : on thinnet unitl I started playing with it. Now I have to manually configure : it after each reboot. I give it : : ifconfig ed0 up : ifconfig ed0 link2 : ifconfig ed0 netmask 0xffffff00 : ifconfig ed0 dar (it reads the host table for the address) : et, voila! il marche! : I have tried to change the sysconfig file to accept these : parameters but nothing I enter (I have tried to put link2 in various places on : the ifconfig_ed0 command line) will make it see the network on boot. Can : someone please give me a hand with this? : Thanks, Karl_Shepard@ccm.jf.intel.com If the above works, "ifconfig ed0 inet dar netmask 0xffffff00 link2" should work. Have you tried setting ifconfig_ed0 to "inet dar netmask 0xffffff00 link2" ? Have you made sure that /etc/inet.conf says hosts before bind ? Have you made sure that ed0 is in your network_interfaces variable ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....