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- From: philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Helpfor 425t that won't talk ethernet...
- Message-ID: <9207311624.AA04821@cel.cummins.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:24:31 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 59
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- Andrew F. Gunnesch asks:
- > We have a single 425t on an ethernet, which is routed to the rest
- > of our extensive internet on two ends of the wire, one being a Cisco
- > AGS+ and the other a Proteon P4100. We have removed the ringcard
- > from the machine, and are using the ethernet port only. At times,
- When you removed the card, did you EX CONFIG at the MD to tell
- it there was no ring card? Did you set the primary network to
- Ethernet? (PNET E?)
-
- > the machine works just fine, albeit a little slow. It runs an
- > llbd, glbd, and ns_helper. Occasionally (quite often now), when the
- > machine boots up, it registers no network number. I've even gone so
- > far as to run the following script at boot time before tcp services
- > are started:
- >
- > #!/bin/sh
- > (/etc/netsvc -net 29cf2 ) > /dev/console
- > (/etc/netsvc -a ) > /dev/console
- > (/etc/rtsvc -dev ETH802.3_DIO -net 29cf2 -noroute ) > /dev/console
- >
- Since TCP/IP and Domain Networking services don't have anything
- to do with each other, this shouldn't affect TCPD or any TCP/IP
- services. If there are other machines on the ethernet spline
- that are routing Domain Services (the Proteon and Cisco are both
- capable of doing this...) then this Apollo will get it's network
- ID from the router automatically.
-
- > It's worked before like this. Sometimes it doesn't. I've removed
- > the `node_data/hint_file and rebooted it several times. Once in a
- A good thing to try in a case like this...
-
- > great while now the node is happy and registers it's proper network
- > of 29cf2, but usually doesn't (it sometimes when you are logged onto
- > the machine and do a bldt it replies 29cf2.341c8, but lately it just
- > responds 341c8). When the machine gets into this state, I can pst
- When it's in this state try runing netsvc and rtsvc to display
- the current network options. The network is probably 0.
-
- > it, but not crp (object not found error). I must telnet in then.
- > When I'm on the machine, I can bldt other machines in my internet.
- > When I try an lcnode, I get this:
- > ?(lcnode) Node 341C8 did not respond - request denied by local node (OS/network)
- This may be because you haven't set the primary network
- correctly?
-
- Are you sure that 29cf2 is the Apollo network id of the
- ethernet? It isn't the old number of the Apollo Token Ring?
- Mixing machines on the same ethernet with different numbers
- caused all sorts of strange problems here when we moved nodes
- and forgot the change the config's
-
- > Can anybody help me out with this perplexing problem????
- I hope I did...
-
- Sincerely,
- Philip D. Pokorny
- philip@cel.cummins.com
- :)
-
-