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From: randall@bcstec.boeing.com (Michael Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Rotting Routing Problem?
Message-ID: <737@bcstec.boeing.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 19:30:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: bcstec.737
References: <1991Mar13.144404.20653@ccs.carleton.ca>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle
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In article <1991Mar13.144404.20653@ccs.carleton.ca>, rmallett@ccs.carleton.ca (Rick Mallett) writes:
> I'm trying to get TCP/IP services to work on a network of 5 Apollo 
> workstations running SR10.2 and I'm finding that the routing tables
> on the hosts disappear a few minutes after booting the gateway even 
> though "netstat -r" on the gateway shows it has a full routing table. 
> All machines use Apollo Token Ring for Domain services - the gateway 
 
 On our hosts we don't use the routed. We have one command in
 /etc/rc.local "route add default ip.address.of.gateway.domain.ring 1".
 This tells the hosts that they should ask the gateway for any routing
 information. If your hosts file has:
    192.192.10.10  host_eth0
    150.150.150.1  host_dr0
    then rc.local should have:
    if [ -f /etc/route ]; then
       /etc/route  add  default  150.150.150.1  1
    fi
 I haven't experimented with changing the net ID. But this is worth a
 try. It has solved our TCP/IP problems (similar to yours).
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