From fa6b75ccc42000f20040ae4373b19410280a66aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "jbranso@dismail.de" <jbranso@dismail.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:06:09 -0400
Subject: mention that pfinet sits on /servers/socket{2, 26}
* hurd/translator.pfinet.mdwn: I often times want to know what my
current Hurd's IP address & settings are. It'll be nice to document
your current hurd's IP settings via this command.
Message-ID: <20241017060612.22719-2-jbranso@dismail.de>
---
hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
(limited to 'hurd/translator')
diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn
index f6ceec4f..1dd5c8b5 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet.mdwn
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ arguments to give it.
There, `-i`, `-a`, `-g` and `-m` are, quite obviously, the (Mach) device to
use, the IP address, the gateway and netmask.
+You can see your currently running `pfinet`'s options via
+
+ $ fsysopts /servers/socket/2 # provides IPv4
+ /hurd/pfinet --interface=/dev/eth0 --address=ADDRESS --netmask=NETMASK --gateway=GATEWAY --address6=ADDRESS --address6=ADDRESS --gateway6=::
+
+ $ fsysopts /servers/socket/26 # provides IPv6
+ /hurd/pfinet --interface=/dev/eth0 --address=ADDRESS --netmask=ADDRESS --gateway=GATEWAY --address6=ADDRESS --address6=ADDRESS --gateway6=::
+
---
To make DNS lookups work, you'll also have to properly configure the
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