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- From: kinomon@glia.biostr.washington.edu (WhiteFire)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Getting tcp/ip working...
- Message-ID: <kinomon.721346398@glia>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:59:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: glia.kinomon.721346398
- References: <ins217t.720861768@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov4.090143.24962@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- >Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
- >>That seem to work fine for me...
- >>But how the hell do i get talk to work ???
- >>"Network unreachable"...even when you just say
- >>talk andy
- >>talk andy@loopback gets a bit further ("checking to see if logged on",etc.)
- >>but still no dice...
-
- There is an ioctl() call that sets the IP addr of your machine for
- each network adapter, including the loopback. The named program does
- this... I personaly wrote a small program that just sets up the loopback
- and nothing else and use that to run TinyFuge and NetMuck 2.2FB4.1
- to write and test MUF.
-