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From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: ICMP support??
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 20:57:03 +0100 (BST)

>
>Since there are neither examples nor a manpage for icmp,
>I thought I'd share how I set it up here.
>
>In /sys/src/9/magnum/[magnum magnumcpu], I added an entry for icmp to
>the device list as follows:
>       icmp    Q
>
>In that same directory, I used "mk", and then "mk 'CONF=magnumcpu'" to
>build the 9magnum and 9magnumcpu kernels, which I copied to my tftp area.
>
>In /rc/bin/cpurc, I added (in the case statement for my cpuserver):
>       bind -a '#Q' /dev               # icmp device
>       aux/icmp                        # icmp listener
>
>and changed the last line to read:
>echo -n 'add tcp il udp icmp' > /net/cs
>
>and I added this to /lib/namespace:
>bind -a #Q /net
>
>
Thanks to Steve and all the others that pointed this out to me.

This will give me an excuse to try making a new kernel...

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~cthulhu/