Re: NetBSD Port

[Kay-Uwe Kasemir <kasemirk@ornl.gov>]

On Aug 31, 2006, at 16:05 , David Dudley wrote:

> OK, that tells me what I needed to know.
>
> When I run the excas program on the netBSD machine, I get a message  
> saying the server isn't attched to a network.  Looks like I haven't  
> got the dependent code quite right.  I'll correct it now that I  
> know what doesn't work.

I think you have to find the code that queries the OS
for its network interfaces and their IP addresses.
I can only provide the outside hint that you usually get
that message when you really have no network card.
On some systems, one can then try something like
   EPICS_CAS_INTF_ADDR_LIST=127.0.0.1 excas &
to force use of the loopback device.

Note that unfortunately there are two CA servers in EPICS:
The one under base/src/cas (used by excas)
and the one under base/src/rsrv (used by the IOC).
I hope that once you figure out how to fix one,
you'll also know how to fix the other for netbsd.

-Kay