> > On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Stewart King wrote:
> > 
> > > starting network
> > > duplicate IP address 7f000001 sent from ethernet addres 00:c0:7b:5f:a0:96
> > > arp_rtrequest: bad gateway valuertinit: wrong ifa (0x6b2b780) was
> > > (0x6b2b300)
> > > host12: bad value
> > > #: bad value
> > 
> > Okay.  You're trying to configure the machine using an IP number that's
> > already in use somewhere on the network.  Make sure you copied it right
> > from MacTCP, and if you did, make sure MacTCP wasn't running when you
> > started NetBSD.  That _could_ be a problem, perhaps -- it's a long shot,
> > though, really.  :-)
> 
> Looking at the address, 0x7f == 127, so the address is 127.0.0.1. That's
> the loopback address; you're trying to set two different interfaces ON
> YOUR COMPUTER to the same address. Thus the ifa error (part of the
> call used the ae0 interface, the rest found the lo0 interface).

This being the case, you probably need to add a line to you /etc/hosts 
file like so

you.ip.address.here	your-host.your-domain

And create a file of the format specified in /etc/netstart called 
/etc/hostname.ae0 which contains a line like:

inet your-host

That should probably do the trick.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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