Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!boulder!grunwald From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: retrix bridge problem, automount, AMD Message-ID: <24266@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 2 Aug 90 19:21:50 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 35 4 Q's: + we have 2 Enets, OT-1 & OT-2, connected by a retix bridge. We have a demo RS/6000 running AIX 3.1 living on OT-1. When we power up the machine, it'll see machines on OT-1 & OT-2. Eventually, it only sees machines on OT-1. the following is the ifconfig. /etc/ifconfig en0 en0: flags=2000063 inet 128.138.243.85 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 128.138.243.255 this is an occasional problem, but it happens enough to make us wonder if we want these boxes. Checking 'arp -a' after it stops talking to OT-2 show no arp entries for hosts on OT-2. Entering the arp entries doesn't make the hosts reachable. Anyone ever seen this before? + What's the diff between 'en0' and 'et0'? What's a standard ethernet and what's 802.3? I thought 802.3 WAS std enet. + I can successfully YPBIND the machine to a sun, but when I attempt to run 'automount' using the auto.master from the sun-4 (4.0.3), the rs/6000 complains about the options entries. Does it need its own set?1 + likewie, 'amd' doesn't work very well. I had to hack on amd-5.6 a little to get it to compiler. Do people use 'amd' and if so, what version and how did you get it to work? thanks Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu) (grunwald@boulder.colorado.edu)