Subject: Re: For network experts.
To: None <derrick1@tribeca.ios.com>
From: Francois Pays <francois@pluton.sema-itf.fr>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/13/1995 14:00:35
> At 6:11 PM 10/12/95, Francois Pays wrote:
> >Hello everybody.
> >
> >My network still refuses to work after all.
> >Since I am not a network expert, I can't figure out
> >what is going wrong at all.
> >In short, everything looks all right with netstat and ifconfig,
> >but I can't get a byte going through the modem ! Ping says
> >"Network is down". (see in appended log)
> >
> >If you understand this mess, please let me know.
> 
> 
> I didn't get a chance to check this with ifconfig on my machine, but
> perhaps when you used ifconfig to set up sl0 you left out the 'up' flag to
> let the kernel know it could actually use the interface?
> 
> Derrick Hutchinson
> 

Yes I have noticed it as well, but I think that sl0 is for slip connections
so I suppose that its configuration does not matter at all.
Thanks anyway.

-- Francois Pays