Subject: Re: networking no longer works
To: John P. Wittkoski <jpw@netscape.com>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/02/1997 13:41:26
> I did a sup last night (hadn't in ~2-3 weeks) and now
> my networking doesn't work with the newly generated
> kernels.
>
> It looks like ae0 is recognized and configured properly,
> but I can't send or receive anything.
>
> When the ifconfig of the lo0 interface happens, it hangs
> for 1-2 minutes then fails. This may be the actual problem
> since the ae0 seems to be working.
>
> I looked through current users and saw there were changes
> to /etc/netstart recently, but I'm not using the new
> netstart scripts. Did the netstart change coinside with
> some changes in the kernel?
There have been a number of changes to networking stuff when the new arp
code went into the tree. Was that 2 weeks ago? What does an ifconfig -a
show you?
Later.
--
Colin Wood ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant Rice University
Information Technology Services Houston, TX
P.S. maybe you need to rebuild ifconfig?