From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 10:29:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA01873 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:29:42 -0700 Received: from prades.cesca.es (prades.cesca.es [192.94.163.152]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01867 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:29:39 -0700 Received: by prades.cesca.es (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA07916; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 19:26:37 +0200 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 19:07:34 +0200 (METDST) From: Carles Amengual Subject: Re: TCP/IP Again To: William Harrison Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506281936.MAA17078@ix3.ix.netcom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, William Harrison wrote: > With your help I quickly found the IRQ problmem and TCP/IP is working > in that I can telnet in or out etc. > Excellent. > I am not sure what is acceptable in the netstart parameters. ie whether > it is looking for YES or "YES" or a dotted decimal address. > I am not sure of what are you meaning. In principle, there is no reason for you to edit the generic netstart. I only suggested looking at it. > I have several UNIX books but none give details on netstart. > netstart is a startup script not standard to all UNIX flavors, it is used by FreeBSD and BSDI (and other BSDs, I suppose). You only should know what is done by the commands in the script, since looking at the scripts is probably the best "documentation" available. In case you do not know Bourne shell programming basics, I strongly encourage you to learn it, as it is easy and very useful. Carlos