From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EA5AED9.8000002@plan9.escet.urjc.es> From: FJ Ballesteros User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; es-ES; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ndb/local References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:06:33 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 95c601ba-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 dont you have to say something like ether in the args of ipconfig? I dont remember and dont have my laptop here to check, sorry. ron minnich wrote: > OK, it's probably just me, but this ndb/local stuff is getting on my > nerves. > > I have a new T21 just loaded from the CDROM. I have no dhcp. I want to get > the hostname set to P9. I want to set it from local files only. Hints from > the wiki imply that if you have a sys= entry with the ether address set, > the various bits of software will Do The Right Thing for setting up the > network, but that is not working for me. > > Here is ndb/local after the database= section: > > ipnet=ccstar ip=10.128.0.0 ipmask=255.255.0.0 > ipsubmask=255.255.0.0 dnsdomain=ccstar.lanl.gov > ipgw=10.128.10.241 dns=10.128.10.241 > auth=p9 fs=p9 dom=p9 authdom=p9 > > ip=10.128.207.112 sys=p9 ether=0010a48975c5 dom=p9 authdom=p9 > > At the head of /rc/bin/termrc I have: > > sysname=p9 > > /dev/sysname is set to p9 > > ip/ipconfig would, I thought, take the sysname and set all the ipifc stuff > up correctly. No dice. So I did it by hand in termrc: > ip/ipconfig -g 10.0.10.241 10.128.207.112 255.255.0.0 > > but /net/ipifc/0 still has an empty address. > > OK, what dumb thing am I doing here? Multiple dumb things, probably. Is > there a way to get reasonable debugging done when I screw up ndb/local? > > thanks > > ron > > > >