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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DECnet and TCP/IP between Ultrices
Message-ID: <8187@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 02:21:36 GMT
References: <880@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <880@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
> VAX 8200, Ultrix 1.2
> VAXstation 2000, Ultrix 3.1 (but comments apply to 3.0 and 2.2 as well)
> 
> Whenever the VAXstation kernel is compiled with DECnet in it, it won't
> speak TCP/IP to the 8200.  (Actually, the silence is only partial; rwho
> traffic gets through from one to the other, but ping, rlogin, rsh, etc.,
> don't work.)  When the VS kernel is compiled w/o DECnet, the machines
> talk TCP/IP to each other with no problems.

Are you following the instructions as far as firing up DECnet in the
/etc/rc file before you start the TCP stuff?  If not, when DECnet
changes the ethernet "address" your system drops out of sight of any
TCP systems which think they already know who it is...

-- 
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