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[Jens Burmeister <jb AT numerik.uni-kiel.de>]

Dear BL-readers,

I'm running BL3_21 on a 'dinosaurus'-test cluster consisting of 2 oldtimers:

   -  a 486DX with 48 MB RAM, suitable hard disk, ISA-network adapter and
   -  a 486DX with 32 MB RAM, suitable hard disk, ISA-network adapter. 

My intension is to add step by step more functionality to my mini-system
just in the sense of 'minimalistic configurations'. 

So I defined my own testproblems. 

1.) First of all I decided to add ping-functionality. 
The solution was relatively straightforward 'cause
the necessary modules are part of BL3_21.

    insmod 8390
    insmod ne io=0x???

makes the hardware working and

    ifconfig eth0 ip-address

sets up the software. ping comes already with BL3_21; so
testproblem ping-functionality was solved.

2.) Next idea was to add dhcp-functionality what means in particular to
set up a DHCP-server and use DHCP-clients. 
The client dhcp comes with BL3_21 but the server daemon dhcpd not. So I had 
to install a  suitable package. I found one in Slackware 7.1 called 
tcpip2.tgz.
Installing the package causes no problems. But starting the dhcpd-binary
failed with the error message:

      -sh: dhcpd: not found.

By the way I observed that ifconfig failed with the same error message.
A new ifconfig came with tcpip2.tgz. Analysing the binaries with file
gave me a  hint: the 'old' ifconfig is a setuid ELF 32-bit binary 
the 'new' one only a ELF 32-bit binary. So I guess I ran into 
shared-library-problems ?
 
Do you have any comments on that ?

With best wishes from northern germany
Jens Burmeister