[comp.sys.sun] 3/50 - SUNOS 4.0.3 won't do etherfind?

dove@uunet.uu.net (Webster Dove) (12/11/89)

# etherfind -arp
using le0
NIT Open: No Such Device

How do I fix this?

		Dr. Webster Dove
		Special Computing Applications
		Advanced Technology Engineering
		Sanders Associates (a Lockheed Company)
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rvi@relay.eu.net (Rob Vijgenboom) (12/27/89)

In article <3875@brazos.Rice.edu> you write:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 221, message 3 of 10
>
># etherfind -arp
>using le0
>NIT Open: No Such Device
>

You have to create a new kernel with streams NIT support:
(fragment taken from GENERIC kernel template)

************ cut here ***********
# The following are for streams NIT support.  NIT is used by
# etherfind, traffic, rarpd, and ndbootd.  As a rule of thumb,
# NIT is almost always needed on a server and almost never
# needed on a diskless client.
#
pseudo-device   snit            # streams NIT
pseudo-device   pf              # packet filter
pseudo-device   nbuf            # NIT buffering module
pseudo-device   clone
******* cut here ***********

Regards, Rob Vijgenboom