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Re: Module, netcfg and plip: do they work together?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Nov 18 16:27:04 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:03:56 EST."
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:15:03 -0500
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Paul Waldo writes:
>I am trying to make my plip connection start automatically at boot
>time. I have plip support compiled as a module and I can make it work
>just fine by typing the commands
>ifconfig plip2 main pointopoint remote up
>route add remote
>
>OK, so far so good. Now I want to use netcfg to automate all of this at
>boot time. My questions are:
>
>1. Once you select add interface in netcfg, and select plip, the default
>plip interface is plip0, but I need plip2. How can I get plip2 here?
Hmm. I didn't know that the interface number was used to specify
the device address. Configure plip0, then do the following:
$ cd /etc/sysconf/network-scripts
$ mv ifcfg-plip0 ifcfg-plip2
Now edit ifcfg-plip2 and change DEVICE=plip0 to DEVICE=plip2
I *think* that should be all you need to do.
It's on my bug list...
>2. If the plip module is not loaded, I *must* use insmod to load the
>module when running the ifconfig command from the command line. If I
>don't, I get the following messages:
>SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device
>My /var/log/messages says:
>Nov 18 16:00:45 main modprobe: Can't locate module plip2
Cute. That looks like a kernel bug to me...
In /etc/conf.modules, add the line
alias plip2 plip
and see if that works. Please let me know.
michaelkjohnson
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