NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/unix/admin/6918

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From: [e-mail] (Rex Fowler)
Subject: Re: Network Problems
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Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:49:30 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Herb HASLER)
writes:
>I am looking for some advice or possible leads with a network problem we
>are experiencing at our site.  We have about 8 sparcs, 1 dec 5000/200,
>1 rs6000, 1 hp710 and 2 data general avions.  The problem is that I can
>not get the decstation and the rs6000 to communicate (all machines are
>on the same subnet) yet they can communicate (using ping) with every other
>machine and every other machine can communicate with them.

I saw the same problem about a year ago.  I'm not quite sure of the
exact cause but swapping some ethernet cards and tranceivers seemed
to have cured the problem.  What I did in the meantime was to add an
entry to the routing tables of the 2 machines to route packets to
each other through a machine they would both speak to.   By the
way, my hardware was different than what you mention.

You might also check to see that trailers are turned off on all
your network interfaces and netmasks are the same.
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