From: sthomas@worldbank.org (Sidney F. Thomas) Subject: Re: Help getting TCP/IP going wanted Date: 14 Nov 1992 18:21:42 GMT
In article <13524@ecs.soton.ac.uk> mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
>
>I have the SLS 0.98pl1 distribution on a 486 machine connected to an
>ethernet using a Western Digital card.
>
>I recompiled the kernel according to the quick and dirty readme.
>I had all the stuff in /etc/inet and I edited install.net and rc.net
>to refer to this location (instead of /usr/etc/inet). I have
>configured rc.net with all the right IP addresses.
>
>The loopback and WD devices seem to initialise correctly when the
>kernel boots up. When rc.net runs all three config commands fail with
>"Socket: Protocol not supported".
>
>I have edited net/tcp/Space.c to set the initial parameters for the
>board. This didn't help. The board is set to use soft parameters, if
>that helps.
>
>I suspect I am missing something or the config program is broken. I
>haven't found anything useful on the ftp sites.
>
>Could somebody please point me in the right direction?
>
> Mark.
>--
>Mark Dobie M.R.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
>University of Southampton M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)
I was planning to do the same some time soon. When you've
got everything working, perhaps you could summarize for the
net a guide for those like me who will soon be following
in your footsteps.
Sidney Thomas (sthomas@nimbus@worldbank.org)