[openbeosnetteam] Re: /etc/protocols

["Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Brennan Cleveland wrote:

> Indeed, the ping implementaton wants to find a file '/etc/protocols'
> to fulfill the function call proto = getprotobyname("icmp").  When I
> copied my 'protocols' file from a unix box over to this (BeOS R5.03)
> box, ping no longer says "unknown protocol".  However, I still cant
> ping anything, as now it will always report "ping: sendto: No route
> to host".  This comes up on any internal address, or localhost.  I
> also cant use "route" to add a default route (route: socket: Protocol
> not supported).
> 
> When testing ping, will it make a difference if Im using net_server
> or OBOS stack?  Just curious...

Yes. You need the OBOS stack. That's why you need to get at least one 
interface up using the ifconfig tool compiled from this stack. Just 
running the tools but trying to use cards being used by any other 
net_stack (BONE or net_server) won't work.

-Bruno

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