Well, its all working now! Thanks for the hint on dhclient, I'm glad to
hear I wasn't the only one who found that bug in dhclient...
Right now I am reconfiguring my ae0 interface in my netstart.local after
dhclient runs. This seems to work well. I might modify the dhclient-script
as you suggest though, I already modified it to add the line 'lookup file
bind' in my resolv.conf file so that my BSD machine could find the machines
on the LAN as well as hosts on the internet.
Thanks to all of you for the help!

Richie


At 3:15 PM -0500 2/2/98, Xiamin Raahauge wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Richard UNGER wrote:
>> Alright, I installed NetBSD (GENERIC #56) 1.3 on my Quadra 700, and am
>> now trying to get my networking up and running.
>> I have the built in ethernet (sn0) and an Asante MacCon-i NBTP (ae0).
>> I want ae0 to be hooked up to my local LAN (a few macs and PCs, all on a
>> 8port dumb hub). I want sn0 to connect everything up to the internet via
>> my cable-modem.
>>
>> I have a few problems:
>> 1) dhclient 'zaps' my setup for ae0. I have a ifconfig.ae0 file, and
>> netstart configures it correctly on boot-up. When I run dhclient from
>> netstart.local it always 'zeroes' my config for ae0. The man page for
>> dhclient claims if I invoke 'dhclient <if-name>' it will only configure
>> the interface specified with dhcp.
>Ok, this one I know about. The rest I'm shakey on, although I have an
>almost identicle setup.
>Here's the gross hack to fix this problem: Add this to the top of
>/etc/dhclient-script
>
>#Hack to avoid working with ae0.
>if [ $interface = "ae0" ]; then
>  exit 0
>fi
>
>This makes the script exit if it tires to work with ae0. I know the man
>pages says that giving the name will make it only work with that name, but
>dhclient has a bug with regards to that. ;)
>
>> 2) If I manually reconfigure the ae0 interface after boot-up to set it
>> back to the LAN, I can then ping the local machines, and they can ping
>> me. However, ipnat is DREADFULLY slow, like a few bytes per second. My
>> ipnat.conf file has the following lines:
>> map sn0 192.168.1.0/24 -> 0/32 portmap tcp/udp 40000:60000
>> map sn0 192.168.1.0/24 -> 0/32
>> Is this right? Why is ipnat so slow? Should I be setting up ipf to do
>> some blocking as well?
>Hmmm, this I don't know about. Here's my /etc/ipnat.conf:
>map sn0 10.0.0.0/8 -> 24.128.90.79/32 portmap tcp/udp 10000:20000
>
>I can get very fast transfer rates, so I don't know what's up.
>
>> 3) My ifconfig -a lists the ae0 media type as 'manual'. Is this good? I
>> tried setting it to 10BaseT/UTP but it wouldn't let me.
>My ae0 is listed as manual too, doesn't seem to hurt anything.