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- From: aas@beta.lanl.gov (Anthony A. Sako)
- Subject: SUMMARY /etc/gateways
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.145453.9442@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:54:53 GMT
- Lines: 117
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- Thanks to Christopher Kranz and Will McCown for their
- responses. Our problem turned out to be operator error
- with the "flat-forehead" solution (a one slapper.) The
- SA who set up the gateways file put the wrong hostname
- in for the subnet router - he put in the name associated
- with the backbone address instead of the subnet address.
-
-
- Here are the original responses. I got a couple of
- requests from people having similar problems, these
- responses should help, and it should work !
-
- Thanks again ... and good luck.
-
-
- PS for Will McCown, "Rhythm & Hues" <= GREAT NAME
-
- ********************************************************************
- ORIGINAL QUESTION
- > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this problems,
- >and apologies if it's a FAQ. I also don't read this group often
- >and would beg you to send responses directly to me. I'll post a
- >summary if there is enough response.
- >
- > Here's my question - We just received a truckload of SGI's, and
- >some of the System Administrators have a question about setting up
- >the route tables. On other vendor system's at our site we use a
- >file named /etc/gateways, which gets read at boot. There is no man
- >page for the gateways file, but it is mentioned in the routed (1m)
- >man page.
- >
- > This file was set up as specified, but the results of the netstat
- >command showed that the specified route was NOT added. Are we missing
- >something ... or does the route daemon not look at the gateways
- >file ?
-
- ********************************************************************
- From: Will McCown <will%celia.uucp@usc.edu>
- Subject: Re: /etc/gateways
- To: aas@beta.LANL.GOV
- Message-Id: <9208181536.AA04948@usc.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- In-Reply-To: <1992Aug17.211414.21178@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood
-
-
-
- I don't think it should matter but the difference between what you are
- doing and what we do (which seems to work) is that we name the other
- network by name and have an entry in /etc/networks as follows:
-
- thumper 6 % more /etc/gateways
- net rfx gateway annex metric 1 passive
-
- thumper 7 % more /etc/networks
- # Network name database (see networks(4) for more information).
- #
- # This file is not consulted when NIS is running.
- #
- # Local networks
- #
- loopback 127 loopback-net
- #
- # Internet networks
- #
- arpanet 10 arpa
- test 192.0.2
- rfx 89.0.0
-
- Referencing the network by name rather than by number should not matter
- at all. Leaving off the irrelvalent 0's might matter.
-
- I found that I had to read the routed and related man pages completely
- before I was able to figure this stuff out. The information is there,
- it just is a bit hard to find. (And I tend to forget how it works as
- soon as I don't need it anymore.)
-
-
-
- ********************************************************************
- From: clk@gfdl.gov
-
-
-
- Tony,
-
- I use /etc/gateways on all of our 4D/25s and 4D/35s. I used it under Irix
- 3.X and am I still using it under Irix 4.0.1.
-
- The first things to check are the obvious ones. What does chkconfig show
- you? Is routed even on? If it is, do you have a /etc/config/routed.options
- file set up? If so, what does it look like? Do you have your netmask and
- broadcast addresses set up correctly? This will affect how (and if) your
- routed talks to the other routeds on the network.
-
- The only other thing I can figure is that you are using NIS (aka yp). If
- that is correct you need to supply mezuzart's IP number in your gateways
- files because NIS is started after routed. So if you are using NIS to look
- up host names it won't find it. You could also put mezuzart in /etc/hosts.
-
- Other than that your gateways file looks okay.
-
- I hope this helps. Good luck.
-
- Christopher Kranz
- clk@gfdl.gov
-
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