Subject: Re: Initial networking setup phase.
To: None <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp, slking@hcs.harvard.edu>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/28/1997 12:37:50
At 5:38 PM 1/27/97, Masami and Ken Nakata wrote:
>[Sorry to reply this late.  I was on a trip to the US for the entire
>last week and unable to read my mail -- Ken]
>
>On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:05:15 -0500 (EST),
>Stewart King <slking@hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> > first.  Here's more or less what I have in /etc/hosts:
>> > 127.0.0.1   localhost loopback
>> > 128.42.154.39       mycroft-holmes.brown.rice.edu mycroft-holmes mh
>> > And so, my /etc/hostname.ae0 has:
>> > inet mycroft-holmes 255.255.255.0 128.42.154.255 up
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > Where the 255's are my netmask and the other is my gateway address.
>>
>> This did, in fact, make those errors go away.  Unsurprisingly, I now have
>> an exciting, new batch of errors to report.

The gateway address goes in /etc/mygate.  Have you done that?  The marked
address should be the broadcast address for the subnet.  What you show is
the current standard and the default so you could leave it out.  If you
have some SunOS (not Solaris) machines on that net then the broadcast
address might be 128.42.154.0.

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