tran@bungi.com (Tony Tran) (07/17/90)
Our SUN network which is heavily dependent on NIS to operate has consistenly developed bad routing problems in the past few months. Is there any good PD tools available to trace routing problems, and is there any way to prevent this kind of problem from happening in the future? In case bad routing does happen, what is the most effective way to trouble-shoot and fix the problem? I do not have access to any Lanalyzers or Sniffers, and currently rely heavily on the networking tools bundled within the basic SUN OS system software to maintain the network. We don't have SunNet Manager(tm), nor can we afford cisco(tm) or proteon(tm) routers on our network. (that's what I was told :-). We just used the good ole double-ethernet boards method on the gateway hosts. Our network consists of about 400+ SUNs with multiple YP domains, running SUNOS 3.x to 4.1; with a good mixture of SUN3-xx and SUN4/Sparc workstations; has several gateways/subnets, and run "in.routed" daemon on almost all clients as well as servers. Please reply to me and I will summarize if there is enough interest. Tony tran@bungi.com