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   We put a second ethernet card in a SPARCstation IPC running SunOS 4.1.1. We
hope to use this card to spool to printers with EtherTalk interfaces using CAP
configured for Phase II EtherTalk, so I ran ifconfig to bring up le1. Since we
are not intending to use TCP/IP on this line, I did not register a new subnet
or try to assign an IP address.

   After attaching an EtherTalk printer (a Tektronix Phaser IISD), which works
fine on the rest of our ethernet, I looked for packets of any kind on le1 using
the etherfind command and found nothing, even when doing an atlook, which also
showed nothing.

   Although ifconfig reports le1 as "UP" and "RUNNING", I wonder if there is
another configuration step in activating the interface. Is it required to have
an address before the Sun will activate it? The documentation only talks about
internet configurations. And in CAP, is the aarpd command line the only place
(after specifying NIT in the compilation) to specify which interface we want to
use?

   I would be grateful for any hints or suggestions.

                                                        -Dan Svitavsky

            Daniel E. Svitavsky          savage@msc.cornell.edu
      Cornell Materials Science Center   savage@crnlmsc2.bitnet