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From: jms@tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Accessing ethernet.
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 17 Nov 89 19:36:10 GMT
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In article <2636@brazos.Rice.edu> sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
>This may be  dumb question and, if so, I apologize, but does anyone know
>how to address an ethernet connection explicitly (e.g. in an L.sys file)?

You cannot access ethernet the same way as /dev/ttya.  The HoneyDanBer
implementation of UUCP is supposed to be able to build a connection
through the ethernet as a TCP port, but the version of UUCP that Sun
distributes does not have this feature.

For reading netnews, you can use NNTP which can run over an ethernet and
completely bypasses UUCP as its transport mechanism.