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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
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Posted: Sat Aug 11 13:51:30 1984
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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....)