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Re: Putting together an ethernet to be accessable from packet...

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From: Lee Ziegenhals
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 19:42
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Thanks to all who helped explain about the ethernet configuration.  I now have
it up and running using a subnet of our class B address at work.  Hopefully it
will have its own class C address soon.

I'm still having problems in that the various timers (e.g., TCP IRTT) in the
Unix TCP/IP implementation are designed for ethernet.  The latest release of
SysV/68 was supposed to make them configurable, but I'm not having much luck
yet.  A call to Motorola is probably in order.  As a matter of curiosity, how
is this handled in BSD?

I have another odd problem that perhaps someone could comment on.  I have RIP
running on NOS on the PC.  It has been working fine on the ax.25 port.  I
configured the broadcast address using ifconfig and used "rip add" on that
address.  It worked fine, using "QST" for the ax.25 broadcasts.  However, when I
tried to do the same for the ethernet interface, NOS did not seem to know the
ethernet broadcast address.  I told it to use [130.138.92.255] for the
broadcast IP address.  When RIP tried to generate a packet, NOS issued an ARP
request for [130.138.92.255].  If I manually add an ethernet ARP entry mapping
[130.138.92.255] to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff it works fine.
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