Hi Don!

After "googling" on ip_rput_dlpi, I saw this web page: http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail...er/007582.html

Here was his summary: Solaris 8 doesn't support 802.1q on bge
interfaces. Work around was editing /etc/path_to_install to change the
instance numbers from 0 to 2000, 1 to 2001, and so on.

On my system, the closest thing I have to that filename are these two
files:

<<>>
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2244 Aug 19 08:12 path_to_inst
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2244 Aug 19 08:12 path_to_inst.old
<<>>

(Not path_to_install but path_to_inst.)

That *might have* been when I booted the Sun system this morning.

As to the ".old", that is a possible indication of me. I often
rename files with an extension of something. (I do use old, although I
more often use other things. For example, on my Linux system, I copied
/etc/hosts to /etc/hosts.canaan before editing it, for which there is a
copy "hosts.dlink".)

I really haven't done much -- right now, recently, as in, since the
lightning strike, about copying/renaming any Sun files. However, I cannot
say that it wasn't done back when I was initially setting up the Sun.

However, the last modified date is definitely not a date/time where I
did anything to the file.

The beginning of the file is:

<<>>
#
# Caution! This file contains critical kernel state
#
<<>>

I am not editing it right now, and at this moment, I don't really
know about changing instance numbers from 0 to 2001, etc.

(Where there are many numbers, I have no idea which are "instance
numbers", but I'll keep this in mind as I continue my endeavour!) :-)

But, that's what I've found, early in my "googling" and searching
with this new QFE card in the Ultra 30.

Barry
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