Help with CAP on DEC Alpha

[Jay Shen]

I have successfully installed CAP on some old DEC Ultrix machines.
Now I need to put CAP on one DEC Alpha, running OSF1. Everything
compiled cleanly, but that machine have a rare network interface
card, it's tu0. When I try to start up aarpd tu0 "*", I get the following
error message:

10:09:59 08/23/95 pi_open: aarp_init: No such file or directory
init_enet: network initialization failed

Is there some configuration that I missed?

Jay

[Erik Fabry]

Hi Jay,

I've posted about this problem before, here it is again:
You use the packetfilter device of the machine:

1) You have to run the MAKEDEV script from the '/dev' directory to make
the packetfilter files in the '/dev/pf' directory: run 'MAKEDEV pfilt'
from the '/dev' directory.

If you still get an error after that (an error of the type :"No such device"):
2) Did you specify the PACKETFILTER option in the configuration file of
the machine? Use 'pfstat' command to check. If you don't have the machine
configured, you will have to rebuild the kernel of the machine.

Look at the man pages for packetfilter for more information.

Greetings,
Erik.

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Erik Fabry fa...@vki.ac.be

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics http://vki.ac.be/
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[Reece Hart]

Jay Shen <js...@ucsd.edu> writes:
> Now I need to put CAP on one DEC Alpha, running OSF1. Everything
> compiled cleanly, but that machine have a rare network interface
> card, it's tu0. When I try to start up aarpd tu0 "*", I get the
> following error message:

>10:09:59 08/23/95 pi_open: aarp_init: No such file or directory
>init_enet: network initialization failed

>Is there some configuration that I missed?

Jay-

I've got CAP 6.0pl195 running on a sable (2100) under Digital Unix 3.2
with native ethertalk. I had trouble getting CAP to start and I
believe the errors were similar to those you've observed. In my case,
someone had forgotten to add the PACKETFILTER option after an upgrade.
You should check this on your machine by looking at the file
/sys/conf/<machinename> for a line that says
options PACKETFILTER

If you don't have it, you'll need to run doconfig to add it.
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