Ethernets and AUX
Neil McKenzie
mckenzie at june.cs.washington.edu
Mon Jan 16 14:04:46 AEST 1989
[Discussion: trouble with Ethernet interface]
In article <23918 at apple.Apple.COM> brooks at Apple.COM (Kevin Brooks) writes:
>It looks like you need to reconfigure your kernel for networking.
>Now reboot and everything should work correctly.
>
>Kevin Brooks
>A/UX Specialist, Apple Computer APPLELINK: BROOKS3
>UUCP: {mtxinu,sun,nsc,voder}!apple!brooks DOMAIN: brooks at apple.apple.com
>CSNET: brooks at apple.CSNET ARPA: brooks%apple at csnet-relay.ARPA
I reconfigured the kernel. Still, there remained problems.
I was getting the message "ae0: transmitter frozen". I then switched
to a different Ethertalk card. Then, this problem of freezing went away.
Now, everything seems to work, except that the machine doesn't recognize itself
as an existing node. Commands to verify self-existence usually fail.
Here is a script run under A/UX.
Script started on Sun Jan 15 19:39:47 1989
% ping localhost
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
Killed
% telnet localhost
(long delay of 1 to 2 minutes)
Stopped
%
% fg
telnet localhost
Trying...
telnet: connect: Network is unreachable
telnet> quit
% ping june
june.cs.washington.edu is alive
% exit
%
script done on Sun Jan 15 19:42:19 1989
My guess is that it's a simple matter to fix this. There is a line
from the /etc/hosts file for localhost:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Is there anything else that should be in the hosts file?
X11 needs the capability of self rlogin to work, so I need to solve the
loopback bug to run X11. Hopefully, this the last major bug to
purge in the Etherware. But getting the new Ethertalk board was a big
breakthrough, since now most everything else works.
Thanks for your (tech) support,
--Neil McKenzie (mckenzie at june.cs.washington.edu)
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