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[Brian K. White]

> On the other hand, I've been building a fresh OSR 5.0.6a system this week
> as a possible fall-back to a production system, and find it easier to edit
> /etc/default/tcp to define gateway and name server addresses than to figure
> out where scoadmin is hiding the configuration.  I find it frustrating to
> remember commands that I only use every five years or so.

Good choice, because there is no place in scoadmin to set default gateway, or nameservers, even in 5.0.7.
And nothing will read /etc/default/tcp to find nameservers, manually creating and editing /etc/resolv.conf is all there is.
All there is scoadmin is, in netconfig (scoadmin > networks > ...) you can set ip, netmask, hostname for nics

Before 5.0.6 (when /etc/tcp started looking for GATEWAY in /etc/default/tcp) most people actually wrote their own rc script with a route add command in it, but, starting with 5.0.4 there was actually a place to do it.

If you have internet fast start, which is installed by default, even if you're using apache and not using netscape http server in fast start, then you can define static routes in /usr/internet/etc/sco_ip/routes
The file doesn't exist by default, nor I think the directory it's in, but an rc script that looks for that file is there by default.
There is even a gui, really gui as in the special web server and netscape at the console X session, called Internet Manager that can add routes to that file, and you can define a default route that way the same as any other route but nothing says "this is the default route" or "what do you want for default route?"

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