Subject: Re: Networking how-to update?
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/18/1997 19:41:41
Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> >Has anyone come up with a new version of H. B. Hotz's great gif for
> >setting up networking? http://puma.macbsd.com/macbsd/howto/MacTCP.gif
> >still shows the "old" configuration method.
>
> *I* haven't done it. I know the change you told me about was effective on
> April Fools day of this year in -current. And I looked up what the changes
> were once.
>
> If I remember correctly I need to change the name of the hostname.ae0 file
> to ifconfig.ae0 and change the contents to an ifconfig command line instead
> of just a parameter list? If that's really all there was to it maybe I can
> get to it soon.
That sounds about right to me, although I think that I might still be
running -current that's older than Apr. 1. I should probably upgrade, but
I don't have a net connection of any kind to my home machine anymore :-(
> It is on my to-do list, but I run 1.2, not -current so the change is a bit
> abstract to me. If someone will commit to reviewing it, I'll do the
> artwork and forward the result to Colin.
Just let me know whatever you come up with :-)
Later.
Colin