From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Michael Warnock Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Subject: [9fans] networking troubles Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:20:49 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 87dd8fa6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Greetings, I posted the following to the wiki wishlist before I discovered this mailing list. I hope I'm not being overly redundant, but I'm quite excited about learning plan9 and my networking troubles have stood in the way since the 27th * How does one test whether the network connection is up? ip/ping? * Does 'ip/ipconfig ether /net/ether0 unbind' set the card to a state where it can be reassigned with 'ip/ipconfig -g ga.te.way.addr ether /net/ether0 ip.a.d.dr net.m.a.sk' or is there more to do? * Must the first server on the network (which will be the dhcp and auth server) set it's ip in /rc/bin/termrc (or cpurc) or can a well formed /ndb/local assign it? * If after assigning the ip in /rc/bin/termrc and not getting a "cant look up my ip" error from /ndb/dns, one can't ip/ping anything what are the possible problems? I've done two complete installs on different boxes. The first on the 27th with an athlon/netgear 310/geforce2 and yesterday with a pII/lynksys (tulip chip)/geforce2. The first install downloaded the iso, the second one just stalled out and I wound up making a CD. I can see the kernel recognize the network card (#l0) on both machines, but have yet to sucessfully ping any ips. Michael Warnock Artificial Life Programmer - InOrbit Entertainment Inc. Total hard disk crash - O pestilence! Now is the winter of our disk contents!