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From: Gary Jackson <garyj@wam.umd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Networking on campus...
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 18:17:59 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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I managed to track down the point where everything is stopping:

        ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}

in netstart.

${ifn} = de0
${ifconfig_args} = inet 129.2.156.64 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 
129.2.157.255

In the boot-sequence, one of the messages says that the 100baseTX UTP 
port is activated.  The network I am connecting to is a 10baseT network.  
Would that have anything to do with it ... I thought that the 100baseTX 
would go down to 10bt if that was what the card detected...

Also, why does netstart run sysconfig when rc does it first?

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