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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Broadcast RPC question
Message-ID: <5789@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 17 Oct 88 10:46:40 GMT
References: <5763@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <155100002@ishmael>
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Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY
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In-reply-to: cball@ishmael

In article <155100002@ishmael>, cball@ishmael writes:
>What are the ifconfig command arguments in the boot file(/etc/rc.boot
>in SunOS 3.5)?

The netmask was added a year ago when we converted to subnets.
It was the first thing I tried when this problem surfaced with
SunOS 4.0.

I did get a message from Sun about this problem.

Make sure the ifconfig line has `hostname` on the line.
The standard rc.local is missing it.

	Bruce Barnett