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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD - routing and slip
Date: 15 Jan 1994 10:19:34 +1030
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au public access UNIX +61-8-3736006
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In article <CJExBA.G1v@mv.mv.com> shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon) writes:
>Hi. I have three networking querstions for NetBSD 0.9:
>
>1) How can I tell it to use the named-server on a nother machine
>(I can't seem to configure my named right)
Put the following into /etc/resolv.conf:
domain <your domain namehere, without leading . and without <> brackets>
nameserver <IP address (not name!) of nameserver here>
>2) How do I get it to route from the local network (ethernet) which
>it can talk to fine, to the outside world via slip (which it already
>does fine). All the local machines know that they should route through
>it, I just can't figure out how to tell it to pass things on.
Recompile a kernel with "options GATEWAY" in its config file. Packet
forwarding is disabled by default -- you need that option to enable it.
>3) Everyonce in a while, I get "/dev/com1: silo overflow" messages.
>They do not appear (in small chunks) to affect anything.
>But get yoo many of them at once, and ver soo all network
>(or maybe just all slip-related) tasks fail with "no buffer space available"
Get some better serial drivers (:-P) and/or 16550 UARTs. That message means
that interrupts on the serial port are occurring too quickly for the serial
device driver to cope with.
16550s have 64 character buffers on them which take some of the strain off
the device drivers. Better device drivers, on the other hand, will respond
quicker to interrupts, also alleviating your problem.
- mark
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