Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!janus!robm From: robm@ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: ultrix 4.1 ftp doesn't deal with multihomed hosts properly Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 21:54:11 GMT References: Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: emv@ox.com's message of 17 Apr 91 16: 43:45 GMT In article emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: Path: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Date: 17 Apr 91 16:43:45 GMT Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 44 ultrix 4.1 doesn't deal with hosts that have two addresses in the right way. This has been a problem for me also. I have a machine that I want to act as an RIS server, but I need to install machines on two different subnets. Since I can't boot a machine that is on a different subnet than the server[1], I thought I'd give my server an address on each net, and then switch back and forth as the need arose. This caused me many problems, because a machine on a given net only got the address on that net. If the connectin timed out, it never tried the other address. 4.3BSD does the right thing. - Rob [1] This is another complaint of mine, but I'm not sure if it's DEC's fault; can bootp packets travel across a router? -- Rob McNicholas Computer Systems Support Group, U.C. Berkeley robm@janus.berkeley.edu ....!ucbvax!janus!robm Home: 415/339-1514 Work: 415/642-8633