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- From: savage@msc.cornell.edu (Daniel Svitavsky)
- Subject: Using non-TCP/IP ethernet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.171043.23286@msc.cornell.edu>
- Keywords: ethernet interface network
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:10:43 GMT
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- We put a second ethernet card in a SPARCstation IPC running SunOS 4.1.1. We
- hope to use this card to spool to printers with EtherTalk interfaces, so I ran
- ifconfig to bring up le1. Since we are not intending to use TCP/IP on this
- line, I did not register a new subnet or try to assign an IP address.
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- After attaching an EtherTalk printer (a Tektronix Phaser IISD), which works
- fine on the rest of our ethernet, I looked for packets of any kind on le1 using
- the etherfind command, and found nothing.
-
- Although ifconfig reports le1 as "UP" and "RUNNING", I wonder if there is
- another configuration step in activating the interface. Is it required to have
- an address before the Sun will activate it? The documentation only talks about
- internet configurations.
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- Also, ifconfig shows the second ethernet card as having the same ethernet
- address as the first. Do Suns really have one hardware address per machine?
-
- I would be grateful for any hints or suggestions.
-
- -Dan Svitavsky
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- Daniel E. Svitavsky savage@msc.cornell.edu
- Cornell Materials Science Center savage@crnlmsc2.bitnet
- Ithaca, NY (607) 255-2067
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