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From: fredv@orion.oac.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: DN3000 ring/ethernet configuration question
Keywords: ring ethernet config
Message-ID: <26212A65.20884@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 00:35:49 GMT
Reply-To: fredv@orion.oac.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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I have a DN3000 with both a RING and an Ethernet interface. I would like to
remove the RING interface and only use Ethernet. However after removing the
board, running "CONFIG", turning the machine off and on, it still wants to
perform a RING test upon startup and fails with an error message. Apollo
customer support tells me that this is a hardware problem, however today I
performed the same test with another DN3000 with the same result. What step
am I missing here?

Another option is to make the ethernet the primary interface so that 
commands such as "lcnode" use ethernet rather than ring. Eventhough I specify
ethernet to be the primary device in CONFIG, "lcnode" still uses ring after
booting.

Thanks in advance for any hints

Fred Velijanian
UC Irvine
fredv@vmsd.oac.uci.edu