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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX problems
Message-ID: <1991May13.115433.22669@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 13 May 91 11:54:33 GMT
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In article <9357.282caa94@jetson.uh.edu>, elee4fg@jetson.uh.edu writes:
|> From: seng Gan
|> Star Enterprise
|> 
|> Here are the problems that I known about:

  < list trimmed >
|> 10) RS/6000 (token ring TCP/IP) connect to Cisco
|>     Need to define static ARP route in Cisco to RS/6000 or else the link
|>     is not stable.

   We have found that any workstations running YP/NIS need to have routes
defined statically, since AIX will set up these routes during a boot before getting the NIS information. Thus, if you use mnemonic names instead of addresses AIX cannot do an IP lookup against the host table (which it has not yet gotten from NIS), and therefore the route is lost.

|> Seng C, Gan
|> Unix SysAdm
|> Star Enterprise
|> Tel:(713)874-7816

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