Subject: Re: networking no longer works
To: John P. Wittkoski <jpw@netscape.com>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/02/1997 13:41:26
> I did a sup last night (hadn't in ~2-3 weeks) and now
> my networking doesn't work with the newly generated
> kernels.
> 
> It looks like ae0 is recognized and configured properly,
> but I can't send or receive anything.
> 
> When the ifconfig of the lo0 interface happens, it hangs 
> for 1-2 minutes then fails. This may be the actual problem
> since the ae0 seems to be working.
> 
> I looked through current users and saw there were changes
> to /etc/netstart recently, but I'm not using the new
> netstart scripts. Did the netstart change coinside with
> some changes in the kernel?

There have been a number of changes to networking stuff when the new arp 
code went into the tree.  Was that 2 weeks ago?  What does an ifconfig -a 
show you?

Later.

-- 
Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX

P.S. maybe you need to rebuild ifconfig?