[comp.sys.next] TCP/IP and NeXT

bgingric@Intrepid.ece.ukans.edu (Barry Gingrich) (02/24/89)

We just got our first NeXT this week.  We've been trying to get
TCP/IP to work, but, so far, we haven't had much luck.  We followed
all the directions (all 1.2 pages of them...) that were given in
the training manual, setting up the hosts and networks files and all
that, but all that we seem to be able to do over the Ethernet is
ping the NeXT *from* the NeXT (not too useful, really...yes, this
*does* seem to be going over the network, it is not just the loopback).

All other attempts to reach other machines come back with a response
of "Host unreachable."  We also cannot telnet from other machines on
the net to the NeXT...highly aggravating.  We tried to contact the
NeXT people, but they didn't seem to know what was up.

So, has anybody else had trouble setting up TCP/IP?  Any helpful hints,
suggestions, etc?  E-mail would be fine if you don't want to waste
network bandwidth.  Thanks.


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