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In article <1dv97cINNqe6@fnnews.fnal.gov>, jhf@d0xs1.fnal.gov (John Featherly) writes:
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|>We just received our VS4000 TCA boards, great!
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|>Plug one into a 4000-M90 and stick an fddi board on, looks okay so far.
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|>Finally find the network address of the board by running the MIPS console
|>emulator and doing "t tc0 cnfg", looks good.
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|>How do you get it to boot over the fddi adapter?

You can't.  Its not currently supported and its not clear that it will be.

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|>I finally just booted from the ethernet adapter, turned off DECnet on ethernet
|>and turned it on for fddi (don't want to be a router).  This is VMS V5.5-2HW
|>by the way.
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Thats the recommended way to set it up.  Once the system gets sysboot, etc
loaded, it will start using fddi for those systems reachable with FDDI, so
you don't have to have FDDI on all systems nor do you need a bridge between
FDDI and ethernet.

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