On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:35:41PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I am trying to connect to a SunOS 5.5.1 system that doesn't have a monitor
> or keyboard and the serial console shows the boot messages, but no login
> prompt.
> 
> >From these boot messages, I was able to see ethernet hardware address and
> a gateway address.
> 
> I used "tcpdump" to see traffic on my local network to find its IP; some
> examples:
> 
>  21:13:18.750926 137.134.52.26.33641 > 137.134.255.255.sunrpc:  udp 96
>  (DF) [ttl 1]
>  21:13:19.421984 arp who-has 137.134.52.1 (Broadcast) tell 137.134.52.26
> 
> I want to tell my workstation which has a hub in between it and the Sun
> box to be on the same network. Currently, my NetBSD workstation is on a
> 192.168/16 network.
> 
> Of course, if I simply use traceroute (or any other network connection) to
> that IP, it goes via my gateway (to my router) and then out to the
> internet.
> 
> The route(8) manual page says:
> 
>   If the destination is directly reachable via an interface requiring no
>   intermediary system to act as a gateway, the -interface modifier should
>   be specified; the gateway given is the address of this host on the common
>   network, indicating the interface to be used for transmission
> 
> So I used:
> 
>  route add -net -interface 137.134.52 137.134.52.26

What I would do here is something like:
ifconfig ne0 137.134.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 alias

I've done this before and I know it works :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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