gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) (07/21/89)
As a follow-up to my recent posting about TCP/IP problems...
It took IBM Product Support a week of working on this problem to
discover that it is a common one, and that there are several levels
of "corrective services" (bug "fixes", you wascawwy wabbit!) for
TCP/IP. After wasting my time for a week, they gave me another number
to call. Arrgh!
I DID receive the communications cookbook in the mail -- which is, of
course, loaded with erroneous info -- several command options which it lists
for "ping" don't exist, for example!
If I ever get the net up and running, I will post a recipe. I still don't
know why the X on DOS software sets the Ethernet Address of the local
host to 00 00 00 00 00 !!! Is that a bug, or is it related to the ARP??
again, any e-mail replies appreciated.
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(Doolan) | (Meyer) | (Sierchio) | (Stewart)brunner@bullhead.uucp (08/09/89)
In article <12794@well.UUCP> gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) writes: >As a follow-up to my recent posting about TCP/IP problems... >I DID receive the communications cookbook in the mail -- which is, of >course, loaded with erroneous info -- several command options which it lists >for "ping" don't exist, for example! The source for ping has been in the public domain ever since Mike Meuss (BRL) worte it. I don't know which options you refer to, source routing is a common unimplimented flag. Could you specify which options are unimplimented and how you would use any option to fix your net? I assume that at least you can send an icmp echo packet and get in return an icmp echo-reply packet. Eric Brunner, IBM AWD Palo Alto inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu or brunner%ibmsupt@uunet.uu.net uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner (415) 855-4486
gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) (08/10/89)
Unless your responses are timely and informative, they are of little
value.
The Communications cookbook has several errors which are not entirely
typographic in nature -- these include descriptions of the responses
to various commands, including 'netstat' and 'ping'.
The RT Diagnostic diskettes for AIX 2.2.1 DO contain baseband adapter
tests -- however, it required a service call from a CE (and another 3
days) before I had working copies of THOSE!
The entire support structure at IBM seems intended to frustrate the
poor programmer -- despite the fact that there are a few well-informed
people, whose work is invaluable. But IBM's corporate policy in re
Software support is awful.
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