SunOS4 and Sun i386,, ifconfig -a plumb

From: JP Hindin <jplist_at_globe.net.nz>
Date: Fri May 3 16:54:23 2002

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Raymond Moyers wrote:
> On Friday 03 May 2002 15:01, you wrote:
> > My first real quandry is how to get the machines ethernet interface up and
> > talking. I have ie0 set up correctly with the right address, and I have a
> > default route in the route table... However pinging anything (including
> > ie0's IP, excluding 127.0.0.1) gives me a "Network is down" response.
>
> how about the plumb directive ?
A noble suggestion, but apparently an incorrect one.
ifconfig does not know 'plumb'. (You talkin' SunOS 4, specifically 4.0.1?)

> Sun:/etc/init.d# grep plumb *
> asppp: system("ifconfig " $2 " unplumb")
> rootusr: /sbin/ifconfig le0 plumb
> sysid.net: /sbin/ifconfig -a plumb > /dev/null 2>&1

My SunOS 4 install does not have a '/etc/init.d/' directory, I don't
believe this is a SunOS 4 convention.

I see le0 a lot, but I picked up ie0 from my Sun 4/470, which I'm using on
the 386i. Is this an error on my part? Should I try and set up le0
instead?

JP
Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 16:54:23 BST