rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey) (02/27/89)
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
brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) (02/27/89)
From what I've been able to find out from the AT&T hotline and from other people who have been blessed with this wonderful product, the best hope may be to wait until the next version (3.0) is available. No one I could get in touch with at AT&T knew when that would be, however. They weren't even sure if it was in Beta test yet. The hotline does have some patches, updated libraries, the missing include files, and worm-proofed versions of some of the 2.1 stuff available. It may help. If you ALSO happen to have the right version of the C compiler, you'll be able to compile stuff and actually link it into a running binary, or so I'm told. When they ship me the right version of the compiler I'll see. - Brian
john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) (02/28/89)
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]