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RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - Anonymoose - 07-12-2025
Alright! I unplugged all the internal parts, compressed aired the insides, and plugged everything back in. It works again! The Indy lives another day. Back to business, I’m using a fresh install of IRIX 5.3. What else would I need to do to achieve a correct network setup?
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - vishnu - 07-12-2025
Have a look at this thread:
https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3358.html
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - Anonymoose - 07-12-2025
While this was helpful too, I can’t find /etc/config/static-route.options. All I’ve done so far is changed the options in Network Setup to the correct IP (192.168.0.187).
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - weblacky - 07-12-2025
Unless you're dead set on manually entering a static IP on the client side. Please use DHCP like a normal client to make life easier. This will automatically also enter the resolv.conf details as well!
chkconfig network on
chkconfig autoconfig_ipaddress on
chkconfig routed on
Even if you want a static IP you should enter as a DHCP reservation on the DHCP server side.
Also network or not, disable esp service, it's the old remote support system from SGI and it takes an enormous amount of resources for doing nothing anymore turning it off is the first thing you should do on a new system.
chkconfig esp off
Assuming you don't have a cabling or hardware problem things should be working now. Irix did support IPv6 but I don't have the details of that right now.
(07-12-2025, 03:59 PM)Anonymoose Wrote: While this was helpful too, I can’t find /etc/config/static-route.options. All I’ve done so far is changed the options in Network Setup to the correct IP (192.168.0.187).
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - vishnu - 07-12-2025
(07-12-2025, 03:59 PM)Anonymoose Wrote: While this was helpful too, I can’t find /etc/config/static-route.options. All I’ve done so far is changed the options in Network Setup to the correct IP (192.168.0.187).
You can create the file 'touch /etc/config/static-route.options' (leave out the single quotes obviously), 192.168 is one of the non-routeable IP ranges (it can only be used on local area networks), might be simpler to just set it to 192.168.0.1
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - Anonymoose - 07-12-2025
So I’ve done that, chkconfig doesn’t have an esp variable to toggle. I’ve been trying to access ftp servers to test if the networking is working, and it’s still giving me “unknown host”. Is that a correct way to test this? The network setup hasn’t changed.
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - vishnu - 07-12-2025
(07-12-2025, 04:51 PM)Anonymoose Wrote: So I’ve done that, chkconfig doesn’t have an esp variable to toggle. I’ve been trying to access ftp servers to test if the networking is working, and it’s still giving me “unknown host”. Is that a correct way to test this? The network setup hasn’t changed.
Paste in the contents of your /etc/hosts file
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - Raion - 07-12-2025
(07-12-2025, 04:29 PM)weblacky Wrote: Unless you're dead set on manually entering a static IP on the client side. Please use DHCP like a normal client to make life easier. This will automatically also enter the resolv.conf details as well!
chkconfig network on
chkconfig autoconfig_ipaddress on
chkconfig routed on
Even if you want a static IP you should enter as a DHCP reservation on the DHCP server side.
Also network or not, disable esp service, it's the old remote support system from SGI and it takes an enormous amount of resources for doing nothing anymore turning it off is the first thing you should do on a new system.
chkconfig esp off
Assuming you don't have a cabling or hardware problem things should be working now. Irix did support IPv6 but I don't have the details of that right now.
I'm 99% sure that IRIX doesn't have a DHCP client in 5.3. Unless you use 5.3, please don't assume it has certain creature comforts.
IRIX 5.3 doesn't have DHCP, it doesn't have a 64-bit environment and the routing setup is very different.
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - Raion - 07-12-2025
(07-12-2025, 04:29 PM)weblacky Wrote: Unless you're dead set on manually entering a static IP on the client side. Please use DHCP like a normal client to make life easier. This will automatically also enter the resolv.conf details as well!
chkconfig network on
chkconfig autoconfig_ipaddress on
chkconfig routed on
Even if you want a static IP you should enter as a DHCP reservation on the DHCP server side.
Also network or not, disable esp service, it's the old remote support system from SGI and it takes an enormous amount of resources for doing nothing anymore turning it off is the first thing you should do on a new system.
chkconfig esp off
Assuming you don't have a cabling or hardware problem things should be working now. Irix did support IPv6 but I don't have the details of that right now.
I'm 99% sure that IRIX doesn't have a DHCP client in 5.3. Unless you use 5.3, please don't assume it has certain creature comforts.
IRIX 5.3 doesn't have DHCP, it doesn't have a 64-bit environment and the routing setup is very different.
RE: IRIX 5.3 Network Help? - weblacky - 07-12-2025
Ah, was early...didn't catch the 5.3....thought it was normal 6.5...my mistake!
5.3 tips here: https://software.majix.org/irix/network-setup.shtml