sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) (06/09/91)
Greetings, earthlings. I'd like to run MacX under A/UX but without physically being connected to an ethernet. If I do newconfig nonet noappletalk then MacX won't start, as there are no TCP/IP services in the kernal (it appears). If I just unplug the ethernet, things work fine, except that I get error messages about my net being down (surprise, suprise :-). Is there some way to tell the kernal that I have a net, but it is down? On a similar note, doesn't this imply that I can't run MacX under A/UX unless I have an ethernet card in? Or can I, under MacTCP? Thanks, Greg Sorensen sorensen@athena.mit.edu
sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) (06/11/91)
In article <1991Jun9.004545.726@athena.mit.edu> I wrote: >I'd like to run MacX under A/UX but without physically being >connected to an ethernet. I got three responses (thanks everyone!): From: Greg Kilcup <kilcup@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> One way to do it is to put the slip stuff in your kernel, and configure the sl0 interface. From: murphy@hao.ucar.edu (Murphy) The trick is to have a kernel with at least bnet, but to place your machine name on the first line of the /etc/hosts file i.e. the line that has the loopback address. Keep the loop synonyms in place, but then your machine name becomes an additional synonym. From: abm@oxydol.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms) Greg, you can do 'ifconfig ae6 down', (subst. your ethernet interface from netstat -i output for 'ae6') to turn off the ethernet. You can also do 'newconfig noae6' to get rid of the ethernet board driver. If you have MacX >= 1.1, and A/UX >= 2.0.1, you can use the loop device, lo0, which is 127.0.0.1 to connect clients to MacX. >On a similar note, doesn't this imply that I can't run MacX under >A/UX unless I have an ethernet card in? Or can I, under MacTCP? MacX always uses MacTCP even under A/UX.