From nobody@FreeBSD.org Mon Apr 10 07:30:25 2000 Return-Path: Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0838837BAD6 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id HAA73472; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200004101430.HAA73472@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:30:24 -0700 (PDT) From: jeg@hawk.circa.ufl.edu Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: rc.network IPX configuration missing 'ipx' parm for ifconfig X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 17904 >Category: conf >Synopsis: rc.network IPX configuration missing 'ipx' parm for ifconfig >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: sheldonh >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 10 07:40:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: Tue Aug 15 08:10:05 PDT 2000 >Last-Modified: Tue Aug 15 08:14:35 PDT 2000 >Originator: John Gelnaw >Release: 4.0-Current >Organization: University of Florida >Environment: FreeBSD wolf.circa.ufl.edu 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 4 09:03:58 EDT 2000 jeg@wolf.circa.ufl.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/Wolf i386 >Description: Added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable IPX protocol, after compiling kernel with IPX and NCPFS options. ifconfig_fxp0_ipx="0x00010010" ipxrouted_enable="YES" When system booted, boot message paused on " sendmail" for several minutes. After system finished booting, no tcp/ip available. Checking ifconfig, showed my tcp/ip address to be 1.0.16.0 >How-To-Repeat: Add above lines to /etc/rc.conf and reboot >Fix: Checking showed that the line in rc.network that configures IPX was: ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args} but should have been: ifconfig ${ifn} ipx ${ifconfig_args} >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: Sheldon Hearn To: jeg@hawk.circa.ufl.edu Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/17904: rc.network IPX configuration missing 'ipx' parm for ifconfig Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:51:01 +0200 On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:30:24 MST, jeg@hawk.circa.ufl.edu wrote: > ifconfig_fxp0_ipx="0x00010010" ^^^ You left out the address family (pointed out to me by someone else). The ifconfig variables in rc.conf always include the address family, so you'd want something like... ifconfig_fxp0_ipx="ipx 0x0010010" That said, I don't see much help for ipx stuff in the rc.conf(5) manual page, nor in defaults/rc.conf . :-( Ciao, Sheldon. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->sheldonh Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Apr 12 01:10:43 PDT 2000 Responsible-Changed-Why: While the originator is happy with the response we gave him (missing protocol family), something needs to be done to make it clear that _ipx in the rc.conf variable name does not obviate the need to specify the protocol family. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: sheldonh State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 15 08:10:05 PDT 2000 State-Changed-Why: A sample entry has been added to defaults/rc.conf in rev 1.75, and merged onto RELENG_4 in rev 1.53.2.8. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17904 >Unformatted: