emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (04/17/91)
ultrix 4.1 doesn't deal with hosts that have two addresses in the right way. an example should suffice. poe is a 3100 running ultrix 4.1, leebai is a sun running sunos 4.1. <emv@poe> telnet csc.ti.com Trying... telnet: connect to address 128.247.159.141: Network is unreachable Trying 192.94.94.1... Connected to csc.ti.com. Escape character is '^]'. melman.ti.com login: telnet> quit Connection closed. <emv@poe> ftp csc.ti.com ftp: connect: Network is unreachable ftp> quit <emv@leebai> ftp csc.ti.com ftp: connect to address 128.247.159.141: Network is unreachable Trying 192.94.94.1... Connected to csc.ti.com. 220 melman.ti.com FTP server (Version 4.3 Mon Nov 7 10:54:41 CST 1988) ready. Name (csc.ti.com:emv): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. Fix: buy Suns :-) or get a better ftp client; I suspect that the recent Berkeley client would do the right thing. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216
robm@ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) (04/19/91)
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ultrix 4.1 doesn't deal with hosts that have two addresses in the
right way.
This has been a problem for me also. I have a machine that I want to
act as an RIS server, but I need to install machines on two different
subnets. Since I can't boot a machine that is on a different subnet
than the server[1], I thought I'd give my server an address on each
net, and then switch back and forth as the need arose. This caused me
many problems, because a machine on a given net only got the address
on that net. If the connectin timed out, it never tried the other
address. 4.3BSD does the right thing.
- Rob
[1] This is another complaint of mine, but I'm not sure if it's DEC's
fault; can bootp packets travel across a router?
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