Subject: Re: port-amiga/2396: ifconfig on tty00 broken
To: None <florath@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/1996 14:50:08
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	Type:
> ifconfig tty00 inet 137.226.243.214 134.130.79.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
> (or something similar). The command returns:
> "ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: Device not configured"

Is there a network interface named "tty00"?
I'd bet the answer is no -- and that ifconfig isn't broken.

You have to ifconfig _network_ interfaces; that means that if you're
running (for example) SLIP over tty00, then the interface you try
to configure must be 'slX', where X is the SLIP unit number (typically
0 if you only have one SLIP connection).



cgd