Well, it was an easy one. The Sparc-10 automatically senses for
the "active" ethernet port upon reboot. The only difference in the
boot-up should be "le0: Twisted Pair Ethernet" instead of "le0: AUI
Ethernet".
The "network interface" stays the same: le0. The board is wired:
CPU--->le0 802.3 AUI chip:----To connector ---: external thinwire---|
| at the back transceiver
|
+----internal 802.3 to Twisted: ------ TP
pair transceiver
(diagram compliments of Marcel Bernards). For obvious reasons, double
line interfacing is not permitted...
Thanx to:
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
markh@analogy.com (Mark Holm)
Ilkka Virtanen <ilkka@ee.oulu.fi>
bernards@ECN.NL (Marcel Bernards)
pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de (Karl-Jose Filler)
owens@hpn.trw.com (Mark G. Owens)
tommy@hoodlum.att.com (Tommy Reingold)
patp@juliet.ll.mit.edu (Patrick Pawlak)
springer@hau.eri.com (Jerry Springer)
farrell@mr.med.ge.com (Brian Farrell)
and anybody else that replies before this summary hits the mailing
list!
>----------------------- Original Mail -------------------------------
> Alright, here's an easy one that I can't seem to resolve with the
> AnswerBook...
>
> System: Sparc-10, Model 30
> SunOS 4.1.3
>
> We're using the Audio Cable/AUI ethernet box with a transceiver
> adapter to connect to the local thinnet loop. This loop is
> mega-flakey, so we have managed to get the local networking gurus
> to drop a twisted pair connection for us.
>
> What's involved in changing from using the AUI ethernet port to
> using the 10BaseT ethernet port? The only thing I could find is
> the ifconfig command in the rc.local file:
>
> ifconfig le0 ....
>
> the man page calls le0 the "network interface". I couldn't find
> if le0 is the AUI port and a different "network interface" is needed
> to use the 10BaseT port...
>
> Many thanx in advance for the answers...
>----------------------- Original Mail -------------------------------
--Michael Zika
(zika@fatman.tamu.edu)
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