Greetings,
I just purchased a second-hand SGI Indigo 2. I have some familiarity with the hardware after reading the "Indigo 2 Second Hand Buyer's Guide". After the long wait for the Irix 6.5 Foundation Media, I have made the conquest of installing Irix 6.5 on my Indigo 2. I had thought that connecting it to the Internet by configuring the Network for DHCP through System Manager would instantly allow me view web pages over the Internet. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Let me first state that the physical topology of my home network is pretty basic; Cable Modem, Router, Switch, Indigo 2. Irix managed to lease and IP address from the router, and I can also manage to connect to my router administrative webserver. So that negates the possibility that my ethernet cable is crimped wrong or is getting line noise. So, I decided to look at the Irix Admin documentation and tried to use Proclaim as instructed to no avail. I searched the web and discovered documentation on how to configure Irix to lease an address by turning on "autoconfig_ipaddress". I guess this tells Proclaim to run at boot time and get an IP address through perameters set by you through the System Manager. This article may be of use to some:
This still did not work for me, and I cannot change the physical topology of my network by removing the router. This is because I purchased the router so I would not have to pay my service provider an additional fifteen dollars per extra IP address (Limit of three total).
Now this leads me to my question. What files must I configure (if any) in the command line, and also configure networking in System Manager to allow Irix to pass traffic beyond the router, through the cable modem, to the Internet so that I might be able to use a web browser and other such clients without any error? I read other posts about configuring Routed or Gated. I am unsure how to proceed because those posts concern Irix 6.2. If anyone has an answer or even a url to a howto or turorial that I might have missed, I would be etremely grateful.
Thank you for your time,
mrjinx
I just purchased a second-hand SGI Indigo 2. I have some familiarity with the hardware after reading the "Indigo 2 Second Hand Buyer's Guide". After the long wait for the Irix 6.5 Foundation Media, I have made the conquest of installing Irix 6.5 on my Indigo 2. I had thought that connecting it to the Internet by configuring the Network for DHCP through System Manager would instantly allow me view web pages over the Internet. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Let me first state that the physical topology of my home network is pretty basic; Cable Modem, Router, Switch, Indigo 2. Irix managed to lease and IP address from the router, and I can also manage to connect to my router administrative webserver. So that negates the possibility that my ethernet cable is crimped wrong or is getting line noise. So, I decided to look at the Irix Admin documentation and tried to use Proclaim as instructed to no avail. I searched the web and discovered documentation on how to configure Irix to lease an address by turning on "autoconfig_ipaddress". I guess this tells Proclaim to run at boot time and get an IP address through perameters set by you through the System Manager. This article may be of use to some:
This still did not work for me, and I cannot change the physical topology of my network by removing the router. This is because I purchased the router so I would not have to pay my service provider an additional fifteen dollars per extra IP address (Limit of three total).
Now this leads me to my question. What files must I configure (if any) in the command line, and also configure networking in System Manager to allow Irix to pass traffic beyond the router, through the cable modem, to the Internet so that I might be able to use a web browser and other such clients without any error? I read other posts about configuring Routed or Gated. I am unsure how to proceed because those posts concern Irix 6.2. If anyone has an answer or even a url to a howto or turorial that I might have missed, I would be etremely grateful.
Thank you for your time,
mrjinx