Yes, you are probably right. My binaries are from a german mirror
and dated from mid-1994. I have downloaded the puma binaries
and will install them soon. 

Thank you all.

-- Francois Pays


Tuesday, 12 october, I wrote :

> 
> > 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)


Tuesday, 12 october, Bill Studenmund wrote :
> 
> I have the exact same problem. I think another user was correct in saying
> that the problem is in binaries not being in sync with the kernel (as
> some programs manually go mucking around in the kernel).
>

Tuesday, 12 october, Alan Palmer wrote :
> 
> This looks like a problem I had when my kernel was out of sync with my binaries.  If  
> you're using a kernel that is from a different date as you base.tar.gz tarball try  
> getting the ppp source and re-compiling, or getting a fresh set of tarballs (all of  
> them) and re-installing.
> 
> From benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Thu Oct 12 22:30 WET 1995
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:31:58 -0700
> From: Ben Cottrell <benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: francois@pluton.sema-itf.fr, port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re:  For network experts.


Tuesday, 12 october, Ben Cottrell wrote :
> 
> You need to update your binaries. I think there's a snapshot on
> puma that will do the trick--anyway, the various networking
> programs like ifconfig, route, pppd, etc. need to be updated because
> something was changed in the kernel's internal data structures.
>