Re: pfinet

[Robert Giovannucci <bobg@ll.mit.edu>]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:19:00PM -0500, Robert Giovannucci wrote:
> > I recently cvs downloaded the gnumach and hurd sources to try to learn more
> > about the hurd. I built and installed gnumach without any trouble. When I build
> > and install the hurd, pfinet doesn't work. I get a translator died message
> > whenever I try to access the network interface (ping, telnet...). How would I go
> > about debugging this? Is there some way for me to turn on debugging? (I am at
> > work now and can't check to see if pfinet has a debug switch).
> 
> The first thing to check are the translator settings. A simple typo can ruin
> everything. So please send us the output of
> 
> showtrans /servers/socket/2
> 
> another thing to try is to start it up as an active translator and see what
> the error message is. Add the -a option at the beginning to settrans when
> setting up the socket.
> 


The -a option allowed me to see the error message, 'cannot set default gateway'. 

I looked at the options to pfinet and noticed (after a while) that the netmask
I was using was bogus. It should have been 255.255.248.0 and I used
255.255.148.0.


Thanks
Bob