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From: melohn@sluggo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: SUN to Metheus ethernet connect
Message-ID: <12814@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 00:22:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 00:22:49 1987
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Summary: ARP?
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In article <151@dcatla.UUCP> ittfb@dcatla.UUCP (Tom Blakely) writes:
>We have a number of SUN systems all on an ethernet.  Our CAD
>group uses a Metheus (4.1BSD, 68K) machine sold by ComputerVision
>and would like to be able to talk to our SUNs over the e-net.
>We put each other in our /etc/hosts file, but nothing works
>(well, actually rwho on the SUNs knows about the Metheus).
>Have we overlooked something?  rlogins, etc. hang and time out.


Sounds like your 4.1 system doesn't respond to ARP requests. You probably
need to manually add ARP table entries on the sun for the 4.1 system. See
the arp man pages for more information.