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From: mckenzie@june.cs.washington.edu (Neil McKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Ethernets and AUX
Keywords: daemons
Message-ID: <6904@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 89 23:07:22 GMT
Reply-To: mckenzie@uw-june.UUCP (Neil McKenzie)
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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My group at UW (that's Washington, not Wisconsin or Waterloo!) recently
received a MacIIx + AUX, and I've been trying to make it talk on the
Ether waves here.  Unfortunately, I'm not having much luck getting
bootstrapped.

Some things appear to work OK:
/etc/etheraddr -- prints a 6 field Ethernet ID.  This means that the
Ethernet card is plugged into the NuBus and is recognized.

/etc/hostid -- I can set the hostid to a 32-bit identifier.

The next logical step is to configure the interface using /etc/ifconfig.
The local node name is 'tesla'.  E.g.,

	ifconfig ae6 tesla
	
But it seems that 'ifconfig' always produces the message

	ifconfig: socket: network is down

no matter what arguments I give it.  I'm using a thick cable connection from
the Mac to a network box (DELNI) that already has lots of nodes connected
to it and working.

Are there any readers of this group have wise words about what to do now?

--Neil McKenzie   (mckenzie@june.cs.washington.edu)