From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 00:01:35 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA13135 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:01:35 -0700 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA13124 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:01:25 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-8) id AA11702; Thu, 29 Jun 95 09:00:03 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id JAA10248; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 09:13:47 +0200 Message-Id: <199506290713.JAA10248@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: start tcp To: BRUCE@AIIAD.COM Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 09:13:47 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) In-Reply-To: from "BRUCE@AIIAD.COM" at Jun 28, 95 05:25:50 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2227 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi > Just got finished with install. cant ping except > myself, addressing seems ok except the machine did > add net 224.0.0.0 which I dont understand. using ^^^^^^^^^ This is OK. It' s the setting up of the multicast route (mrouting support). > 3com etherlink III. I saw the note on the web about > probs with this. I also saw the tutorial page on > this 3c509b and went through it. are there other > probs besides this ? should I not be using it at > all. it's about all we use on our entire lan. by > using dmesg | grep 0x300 I saw that other things > were not probed because of address conflict, but > not the other way around, like in the tutorial: I > did not find that ep0 was not probed because of > something else. I don't know what special problems there may be with this type of card but you can - and I advise you to do - disable devices by hand using /kernel -c at the Boot: prompt. It is likely that a probing of another device may screw your network card. > > also 'link2' was not on the line in the existing > hostname.ep0. when I added it, I couldnt even ping > myself. turns out ep0 wasnt found at 300, and > niether was anything else. > > could you tell me if the usenix paper > docset is readable if youre not a unix expert? does > it point out for you what's important to set up and > what components are involved in which goals, as > opposed to being just a big list of features? I am > a programmer and I have some xenix exp. > > Thanks very much > > Bruce Goldberg > ---------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------- > E-mail: BRUCE@aiiad.com mail: Bruce > Goldberg > fax: 212-227-0127 American > International Group > phone: 212-770-9315 Internal > Audit Division > 99 John > Street - 5th floor > New York, > NY 10038 > > Date: 06/28/95 > Time: 17:25:50 > ---------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------- > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950619 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995 0619 #1: Mon Jun 19 19:54:08 MET DST 1995 kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.d e:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386