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Howto
Practical "how do I..." pages for both the ISPlab and the systems side. I'm trying to keep track of useful fixes I did, and post them here. Sorry, no search.
2026-10-25Make a new network card the primary interface on IRIX – Move the hostname from ec0/ef0 to tg0 in netif.options
2025-11-11Clone an IRIX boot disk – Make a second, bootable copy of the system disk
2025-11-11Configure dial-in access on the Portmaster – Livingston Portmaster 3A, ComOS 3.9
2025-11-11Set up the modem pool and serial lines on the 2911 – The Cisco 2911 as PSTN simulator: T1s to the Portmaster, 24 analogue ports
2025-11-11Share a filesystem over NFS between IRIX and SunOS – SGI O2 and Sun SPARCclassic, IRIX 6.5 and SunOS 4.1.4