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From: peiffer@cs.umn.edu (Tim Peiffer (The Net Guy))
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: IP Addresses on WD8003E
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.040707.2996@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 04:07:07 GMT
References: <1990Jul26.062713.24394@rfengr.com> <1990Jul27.060743.26946@spectrum.CMC.COM>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <1990Jul27.060743.26946@spectrum.CMC.COM> lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) writes:
>In article <1990Jul26.062713.24394@rfengr.com> rfarris@RFEngr.com (Rick Farris) writes:
	[...]
>So: As hard as you try, you will NOT find a place to strap your
>IP address into the board.

	The explanation was good in that it was a good layman's
	description, but I see the need to have the questions answered
	more in terms of what to do next.

	The ethernet address is, as was said before, a low level
	address.  It corresponds roughly to a hardware serial
	number which follows the equipment around from birth to
	death.  The IP address is configureable vi the application's
	packet driver.

	NCSA telnet has a configuration file (config.tel) which contains
	all the parameters to set up the card including the IP address.
	An extract from the config.tel file is shown below.

Tim Peiffer
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Tim Peiffer				peiffer@cs.umn.edu 	or
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University of Minnesota
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myip=128.101.226.102            # ip types are
                                #  xx.yy.zz.qq  - your IP address
netmask=255.255.0.0          	#  needed if not using BOOTP. 
hardware=packet			# harware choices
                                #  3com         - 3com 3c501
                                #  3c523        - 3com 3c523
                                #  wd800        - Western Digitial 800E
                                #  nicpc        - 
                                #  nicps        -
                                #  ni5210       - Micom Interlan NI5210 card
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Tim Peiffer				peiffer@cs.umn.edu 	or
Computer Science Dept			..!rutgers!umn-cs!peiffer
University of Minnesota