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From: sas@pyrps5 (Scott Schoenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Changing the Enet addr of a TPE enet controller
Message-ID: <36916@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 26 Aug 88 17:23:23 GMT
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Reply-To: sas@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Scott Schoenthal)
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In article <255@owlmnt.UUCP> jim@owlmnt.UUCP (Jim McCool) writes:
>I'm working on a driver to talk to DEC equipment over ethernet and I need to
>be able to change the enet controller's address.  There is an ioctl,
>SIOCSENADDR, which is supposed to do this.  It works just fine for an IOC
>based controller but when the same call is made for an IOP controller things
>go straight down the toilet.

This problem has been tracked down and a PTF fix should be available
"very soon". As you suspected, there was a botch in the IOP/TPE driver in
the SIOCSENADDR ioctl code.

>
>I called RTOC and they said "We don't talk about DEC around here".  They
>refused to admit to any problem.

From asking around, I think that this was due to a miscommunication or
misunderstanding of the problem between you and RTOC.

BTW:  Who is this "DEC" company you keep referring to?  :-)

sas
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Pyramid Technology Corp.		{sun,hplabs,decwrl}!pyramid!sas