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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: ecinit on ifconfig References: <BtHKpH.3Lx@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 24 Aug 92 16:17:27 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.714673047@du9ds3> Lines: 29 In <BtHKpH.3Lx@ibmpcug.co.uk> adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes: >On running :- > ifconfig ec0 192.68.174.74 >My system displays the string "ecinit" underlined. >Why does this come up? The tcp/ip seems to be working otherwise, >and I hate messages coming up with no real explanation attached >to them >Adrian >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Adrian Hall Connect Systems Manager >adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group >Tel: +44 81 863 1191 Harrow, London, UK Apparently a "scalpel" left in the code (ifconfig or ec-driver). Try ifconfig with a redirection to /dev/null to identify whether it is in the driver or in ifconfig. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"