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From: cks@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x
Subject: Twm and TCP/IP routing for a DEC VT1000 X terminal
Summary: WM failure, can't talk to different networks, bootp wierdness
Keywords: DEC VT1000
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.170446.10025@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 6 Jul 90 17:04:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
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 We have a just-delivered DEC VT1000 X terminals (ROM rev 1.2, 2M RAM)
here, and we've run into some problems with it. The first is that it
can't seem to reach anything except the network/Ethernet it's on. When
we try and start up a Telnet session, the terminal tells us that IP
address is unreachable; pings and other attempts to talk to it from
the remote machine just disappear (the remote machine talks fine with
other machines on the X-terminal's network). The terminal's IP number
and subnet mask has been entered by hand and it happens with and
without a font path (pointing at an empty file on one of the Sun
servers) set.

 The second problem is that I can't get any window manager running on
a local Sun 3 (4.0.3) to display and keep its menus up on the VT1000.
Twm (R3 and R4) and awm pop up and pop down again a blank menu when
you push the right mouse button, and again when you release it; uwm
manages to paint text in the menu, but doesn't keep it up.

 I've also tried to have the VT1000 get its IP number automatically with
bootp, using a version of bootp I got from an anonymous ftp site
somewhere, since the Suns seem not to have it. It sets the IP address
correctly but fouls up the subnet mask, even if it's been set by hand
before. Has anyone succeeded in doing this? Any pointers to a current
version of the bootp sources?

 Thanks in advance for any information; please note that followups are
set to comp.unix.ultrix, since I usually don't manage to get to
comp.windows.x before articles have expired.

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