Thanks to Ian Dowse and Patrick Gardella i got my SPARCclassic booting and running as a nice Xterminal server. ------ cut --- >And a message I got from Ian Dowse said: >I think sometime around 3.0, the networking code in FreeBSD stopped >responding to IP broadcasts where the 'zero' subnet broadcast address, >which in your case is 209.9.69.0. >We currently work around this on some 3.x machines by adding an alias >address (which can be anything, even not in the same subnet) that has >a broadcast address of our subnet zero address. Try something like: >ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 209.9.69.0 alias >Maybe the old behaviour of responding to the subnet zero address should >be available via a sysctl? --- cut --- Among a lot of other things the bug above stopped my kernel from booting... The ifconfig workaround solved that.. All works ok now... I start this manually to keep my Sun booting: #!/bin/sh ifconfig xl0 inet 10.0.0.1 broadcast 192.168.1.0 alias bootparamd xdm -config /xsun/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config xfs Thanks all. Ron. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
