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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10.1 TCP/IP question ...
Message-ID: <1214@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 04:56:52 GMT
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Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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In-reply-to: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU's message of 18 Apr 89 19:10:22 GMT

David Krowitz writes:
   I've nstalled SR10.1 on my DN560 using the /etc/hosts files
   (as opposed to name servers). The DN560 is attached to our
   ringnet which, in turn, is connected to our campus etheret
   by a DN660 running SR9.7 and Domain TCP 3.1 (the AEGIS TCP/IP).

   Yet when the machine is booted, we can not connect to any machine
   (ie. ping, telet or ftp) not on the local ringnet *unless* the
   rip_server (the AEGIS TCP/IP routing daemon) was running on the
   gateway at the time the sr10 node was booted. The /etc/hosts file
   lists both an address on the Apollo ringnet and the campus ethernet
   for the gateway node, and the subnet mask should have been defined
   correctly by the 'ifconfig' command, yet we can not access the
   campus ethernet unless the routing daemon was running on the sr9.7
   machine which is the gateway.
 
We've had this same problem except that our Ethernet gateway node
along with all of our other nodes is running SR10.1 (BSD).

I finally found an Apollo tech rep in Texas who knew about this and
said that yes, none of the routing on the non-gateway nodes will work
after the gateway node is taken down and then rebooted.  He said we
would need a script that checked every so often if the gateway had
gone down and then executed /etc/routed -f -h on all of the other
nodes again.

This is definitely a pain that Apollo should fix.  We want dynamic
routing to be fully dynamic.  Any tech help from the sharp Apollo R&D
minds that read this list would be greatly appreciated.
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