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From: john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b2 WINS 2.1 (TCP/IP)
Summary: ftp, WINS
Message-ID: <444@polyof.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 16:20:38 GMT
References: <781@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
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Organization: Polytechnic University, Farmingdale NY
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In article <781@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>, rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) writes:
> 	Does anybody know if one can alter the Bcastnid
> 	variable in /etc/master.d/arp in order to alter the
> 	default broadcast ID? Also, is there a way to get 
> 	WINS 2.1 to speak to Sun's and other 4.2 based systems?
> 	Ftp hangs and all fingers, rsh, etc hang when the 3b2
> 	is the computer being fingered, rsh'd etc. 
> 	Finally, can one hope to support subnets on WINS 2.1?
> 		-Rob Healey
> 
> 		rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu

Don't know about Bcastnid, but the FTP problem we know about.  It lets
you log on, but when you do 'get' or 'put', it hangs, and creates
a zero length file.  The way we get around this is just do a
"type image" BEFORE you do the transfer, immediately after logging on.
Image transfers SEEM to work, for us anyway.

As for subnets, forget it.  You must either:
	a) hand 'route' your destinations
	b) route default to your local gateway machine (proteon?) and
	   let it route it to where it is going.

Yeah, yeah, it sucks, I know.

john@polyof.poly.edu [128.238.10.100]