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From: ranous@hplabsb.HP.COM (Alex Ranous)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: 400t nodes
Message-ID: <5860@hplabsb.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 90 22:52:14 GMT
References: <9009222118.AA24683@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
Reply-To: ranous@hplabsb.UUCP (Alex Ranous)
Organization: HP - Information Architecture Group
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In article <9009222118.AA24683@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) writes:

>GOTCHA!  These nodes have 2 controllers!  'net0' is now an ambiguous
>device reference, and ifconfig does nothing.  Changing to 'dr0'
>made it work.
>
>Question for HP/Apollo people who are reading this:  
>Could you make 'net0' be the primary boot device?  Failing that, a
>mention of this 'feature' would be nice if included in the upgrade
>literature.
>
>
>John Thompson (jt)
>Honeywell, SSEC
>Plymouth, MN  55441
>thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com
 
I'm not sure what literature was shipped w/ your node, but in the first item,
4.1.1, in the Bugs, Limitations, and APR's section of the 10.3 release notes,
this limitation is mentioned.  This limitaion is true on any Apollo w/ more
than one interface, not just the new 400 series machines.  The limitation
is also noted in the comments right before the ifconfig command in the
rc.local file, for 10.2 and 10.3.

Alex Ranous
Information Architecture Group
Hewlett-Packard