On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jaume Samperiz wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> First of all excuse my english.
> 
> I' m trying to learn TCP/IP with Wright & Stevens "TCP/IP Illustrated 
> Volume 2" .So I installed NetBsd 1.4.2. But I can make my little LAN work 
> with the NetBsd.I have two computers:
> 
> 1)  W95/NetBsd 1.4.2 with ne2000 card. Address 10.0.0.1
> 2) W95/NT 4.0/Linux with ne2000 card. Address 10.0.0.2
> 
> When I installed NetBsd I didn't configure the LAN so I have to do manually.
> 
> My problems with machine 10.0.0.1are:
> 
> 1) When NetBsd boots it don't configure the ne2000 but
>      auto_ifconfig= YES in rc.conf.

Okay - in order for the autoconf mechanism to work, there needs to be a
file called /etc/ifconfig.ne1 - this file needs to contain the
ifconfig commands to configure the interface.  It's just the parameters
which should be passed to ifconfig - it's not a script.  Example:

Normally, I'd do a simple setup with ifconfig such as:

	# ifconfig ne1 inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0

So, place these parameters into the file /etc/ifconfig.ne1:

	inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0

That's it.  When you boot, it will automatically create routes to get to
that local network (default route is setup differently - take a look at
/etc/rc.conf).

BTW - are you sure it's ne1?  Usually if you have a single ne card in
there, it should show up as ne0, but it may be something I've never run
across before...

> 2) Trying to configure the ne1 interface with things like:
> 
>      *** ifconfig ne1 inet 10.0.0.1 arp netmask 255.255.255.0

Simpler form: ifconfig ne1 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

The 'arp' should be implied.

>      *** route -nv add -host 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1
> 
>      don't work. Netstat -rn shows things like:
> 
>     *** 10/24          link#1           UC      0   ne1
>     *** 10.0.0.1      00:40:33:35   UHL    0   lo0
>     *** 10.0.0.2      link#1            UHRL      ne1
> 
>        what is link#1?

In this case, ne1...

> 3) Should I change ?:
>       routed=NO
>        gated=NO      in    rc.conf

No - not unless you need to run those daemons.  Those are routing
daemons...

> 4) Where can i found more information about the output of netstat ?

'man netstat'

Hope this helps,

-Jon
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