Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!apollo.UUCP!nelson_r From: nelson_r@apollo.UUCP (Rolf Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: TCP/IP woes (and getting patch tapes) Message-ID: <8711232140.AA26919@apollo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 16:40:41 EST Article-I.D.: apollo.8711232140.AA26919 Posted: Mon Nov 23 16:40:41 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 21:31:07 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 84 >> routed/rwhod: never would work. routed would find other route daemons, >> but other route daemons could not. if we ran rwho, no one would pick us >> up. we bagged that quickly. This is fixed in the October 2nd patch tape. Patch #66, #67. There is a new /etc/rwhod. >> sendmail: bad sendmail problems. There was a problem where sendmail using the SMTP protocol would die after fork(). This is fixed in SR9.7 or on the October patch tape if you apply patch #50 to SR9.6. Your .forward problem sounds unrelated, please submit a UCR to Apollo. >> ethernet storms: from time to time we have these intense ethernet >> storms when someone comes on the net with a bad broadcast address, This could be rwhod or routed which are both fixed in the patch tape as mentioned above. An excerpt from the patch tape release notes desribes a similiar problem. " Rwhod will generate increasing volumes of broadcast traffic. Most of these broadcasts will never be received, but they will impose an increased load on the network. These increased broadcasts will cause rwhod to use excessive cpu time, upwards of 90%. " >>nfs: nfs seems to work fine for most stuff, but in one case i can't get >>it working: I mount a nfs directory (ie, only a directory from an NFS >>partition was exported) as a root file system (in the // directory), and >>from the gateway node everything is fine, but from the others machines >>in the ring, it does not recognize the partition. when an attempt to do >>an ls on partition from a non-gw node, all that shows up is .* Does TCP work from the non-gateway node? Does this work from all nodes if you mount at / instead of // ? The // directory is a special directory in that a copy of it exists on every node, so you may have to either mount the nfs file system at each node or use the ns_helper to make this work right. >>patch tapes: not only have i not heard about the latest patch tape, but >>i was told by the 800 # to call the local sales office for a patch >>tape, and NO ONE their ever heard of one. I called our service guy, and >>talked to three other service people, some tech support people, and the >>so-called "s/w librarian" all who said the same thing: never heard of >>one. The patch tape is produced about once a month by Apollo's Customer Service. I believe it is only sent out by request and orderable by field service personnnel. The following info was available on-line here at Apollo on the patch tape. Apollo field personnel can order patch kits from the NACS Software Support Administrator as follows: * by telephone, at 617-256-7159 * by FAX, at 617-250-8022 The information required to order a patch kit is the following: Customer name - site address Customer contact Contact phone number Node type(s) involved Software release Media type requested Patch required (e.g., October 2nd patch tape TCP/IP fixes #66 and #67 and sendmail fork fix #50) . Instructions on how to install the patches are provided in hard copy release notes supplied with the patch kit. A complete description of the policies and procedures for the patch kit mechanism can be found in North American Customer Services Bulletin # 293. Have your field service person order one for you. They really should be aware of the patch tape I'm sure it just slipped through the cracks. I hope this info helps expedite the solution to your problems. -- Rolf Nelson UUCP: {mit-erl,yale,uw-beaver}!apollo!nelson_r Apollo Computer ARPA: apollo!nelson_r@EDDIE.MIT.EDU -------