Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.lan Subject: Re: Need some 'wizard' help with our ethernet network configuration Message-ID: <964@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 13:51:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.964 Posted: Sat Aug 11 13:51:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 01:16:56 EDT References: <375@uwvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 4 The real problem is that the distributed version of ifconfig is buggy, and gratuitously resets some flags. If you have a fixed version, you wouldn't have to issue it twice. (You should have seen what the buggy version did to Salkind's DEUNA driver, by resetting the RUNNING flag....)