Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:19:00PM -0500, Robert Giovannucci wrote: > > I recently cvs downloaded the gnumach and hurd sources to try to learn more > > about the hurd. I built and installed gnumach without any trouble. When I > > build > > and install the hurd, pfinet doesn't work. I get a translator died message > > whenever I try to access the network interface (ping, telnet...). How would > > I go > > about debugging this? Is there some way for me to turn on debugging? (I am > > at > > work now and can't check to see if pfinet has a debug switch). > > The first thing to check are the translator settings. A simple typo can ruin > everything. So please send us the output of > > showtrans /servers/socket/2 > > another thing to try is to start it up as an active translator and see what > the error message is. Add the -a option at the beginning to settrans when > setting up the socket. >
The -a option allowed me to see the error message, 'cannot set default gateway'. I looked at the options to pfinet and noticed (after a while) that the netmask I was using was bogus. It should have been 255.255.248.0 and I used 255.255.148.0. Thanks Bob
