Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:15:29 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: patrick@whetstonelogic.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun4c as Xterminal - Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991218121251.29200B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <199912181321.aa26630@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <199912180408.XAA24609@p.wl.vg>, patrick@whetstonelogic.com writes: > >I'm trying to use a Sun ELC (sun4c) as an Xterminal on my FreeBSD > >system using Xkernel 2.0. I've used the old howto's from 1996 > >(Philippe Regnauld) as well as NetBSD diskless howto's to set this up. > > >So, does anyone have a fix for this? Back in '96-97, Luigi Rizzo and > >Mike Smith (among others) seemed to be doing this, so I'm hoping someone > >still does. > > I think sometime around 3.0, the networking code in FreeBSD stopped > responding to IP broadcasts where the 'zero' subnet broadcast address, > which in your case is 209.9.69.0. Earlier than that. 2.2.5? It prevents the machine from being used as part of a smurf amplifier. If you want to change the behaviour see icmp_bmcastecho="NO" # respond to broadcast ping packets in rc.conf If you do turn it on make sujre your firewall or router are blocking pings to your broadcast address. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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