Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: help with DMR link, please Message-ID: <1042@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 14:49:04 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1042 Posted: Thu Nov 7 14:49:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 06:28:08 EST References: <183@pwa-b.UUCP> Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 36 In article <183@pwa-b.UUCP> miorelli@pwa-b.UUCP (Bob Miorelli) writes: >I need help setting up a Unix network using a pair of DMR's. I am answering this not because I know how to do it, but because next month I will have to know how. I looked at thevaxif/if_dmc.c code and it looks like it's no good. dmcinit() installs a route (via rtinit()) which has destination == gateway == address of the dmc interface. The only other point-to-point interface I have to compare this with is Rick Adams' if_sl.c, which I have been using for well over a year. The initialization sequence for that does not use /etc/ifconfig, but another program which does first a SIOCSIFDSTADDR, then a SIOCSIFADDR, causing a route to be installed with destination == other host, gateway == this host. > Now what?? I'm not sure what goes in the /etc/hosts >file (including how to specify the lopback). I did add a line >to my rc.local of the form "/etc/ifconfig dmc0 `hostname`". I think that if it can be made to work at all, it will be by doing /bin/hostname this-host-name /etc/ifconfig dmc0 other-host-name Yuck. Ifconfig ought to take another argument for point-to-point interfaces. The host table should look like: 127.1 localhost loghost # sendmail wants loghost 125.1 this-host-name # or whatever number 125.2 other-host-name # or whatever number Make sure that the output of "netstat -i" shows the dmc0 before the lo0. Feedback is solicited. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt