edmbv@fiol.UiB.NO (Bjorn Asle Valde) (07/11/90)
Hi net; I'm having a few problems getting the tcp/ip stuff working on an ps/2 mod80 (8Mb ram), and would appreciate a few hints. I have an U-B ethernetcard, the same HW (machine/card) worked nicely with aix 1.1. What I did: (1) nuked what was on the disk, installed aix 1.2 fresh, (2) installed OS extensions, (3) installed tcp/ip - all seems the be ok. (4) enter "devices" and make a few pty's and the lan device "ethernet0". (5) edit rc.tcpip so that we have eigth bits in the subnet mask and a proper broadcastaddress. (6) make sure "routed" starts, (7) reboot. Now: "ifconfig net0" looks nice, no trailers, running, proper netmask etc - but I don't know why it says "metric 3"; "netstat -r" looks ok. Ping localhost and my machine name/IP -> OK. Everything else: nil. To the best of my knowledge I followed the installation manuals, and I haven't seen any bad errors. [All done in the best possible taste] It's a thin ethernet, and I know for sure the cable is working fine. Local IBM have adviced me to check if the cable is plugged in etc., it is :-) I'm hoping the net migth have an idea. If not I'll take the card and adapter over to an dos-box (not too big a problem, but I wanted to see if there's an easy sollution to this first) just to re-check that the card/tranciever is ok. Please respond to me personally, if somebody want's me to sum answers I'll do it that. Thanks. regards, Bjorn Asle -- Bjorn Asle Valde bav@fiol.uib.no +47 5 544214 Edb-Senteret, University of Bergen, EDMBV@NOBERGEN.EARN Fax: 544299 Thorm.gt.55, N-5008 Bergen, Norway. S=valde;OU=cc;O=uib;P=uninett;C=no