[comp.sys.sun] YP question

fitz@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick) (02/08/89)

I am trying to modify the installation that I manage so that the master yp
server is on a 3/180 running sunOS 3.5 and have a slave yp server that is
running sunOS 4.0.1.  At this point the client that is supposed to boot
from the slave server manages to download the bootfile, but then hangs
responding with "le0 missed packet" and occasionally it says that the
bootparam server is not responding.

Does anyone have such a setup running?  Should I just switch things so
that the machine running 4.0.1 is the master yp server and set up the
machine running 3.5 as a slave server?  I would rather have the 3.5
machine be the master since it is a 3/180 with some CDC Saber-850s while
the 4.0.1 machine is a 3/60 with a CDC Wren V.

I plan to switch everything over to 4.0.1 after some software is upgraded,
but at this time I must run the two different software versions.

Kerien Fitzpatrick
Field Robotics Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
arpanet: fitz@rodan.frc.ri.cmu.edu
(412)268-6564

zjat02@uunet.uu.net (Jon A. Tankersley) (02/19/89)

I'd recommend the 4.0.1 system for YPmaster.  There are some new maps in
4.0.  Access isn't going to be much of a problem since the YPmaps are in
dbm format, plus if the 60 get busy the clients will bind to the 3.5
system anyway (In fact the 60 will probably bind too! and everything still
works)

-tank-