blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) (11/15/88)
We have GL2-W3.6 on an IRIS 3130 and I have tried to run the dog demo, but it dies with the following error: Ethernet init failed. The workstation release notes says that dog works on an IRIS running NFS or TCP/IP. Does it or doesn't it. Am I doing something wrong, do I have system configured wrong, or what. I know this is minor, but if this doesn't work, I kind of wonder if there is anything else that I have missed that doesn't work either. Thanks.
jevans@.ucalgary.ca (David Jevans) (11/21/88)
In article <8811151756.AA02930@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) writes: > > We have GL2-W3.6 on an IRIS 3130 and I have tried to run the dog > demo, but it dies with the following error: Ethernet init failed. > The workstation release notes says that dog works on an IRIS running > NFS or TCP/IP. Does it or doesn't it. The dog program on our Irises uses xns instead of tcp/ip. If xns is not installed you will get the Ethernet init failed message. A tcp/ip version has been around for about 2 years now (thanks Andy and others...), but I don't know if sgi has it or ships it for 3000s. The Personal Iris that is here on demo has dog, and I believe that it uses tcp/ip. One problem with the tcp/ip version of dog is that it sends broadcast messages all over the ether. This can cause severe problems to remote machines, in particular, vaxen. I think I saw this documented in the 4D20 documentation somewhere. Anyway, I fixed our 3000 version so it only sends to machines that it knows about. David Jevans, U of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada uucp: ...{ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!jevans David Jevans, U of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada uucp: ...{ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!jevans
miq@chromavac.SGI.COM (Miq Millman) (11/22/88)
In article <8811151756.AA02930@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) writes: > > We have GL2-W3.6 on an IRIS 3130 and I have tried to run the dog > demo, but it dies with the following error: Ethernet init failed. > The workstation release notes says that dog works on an IRIS running > NFS or TCP/IP. Does it or doesn't it. Am I doing something wrong, > do I have system configured wrong, or what. I know this is minor, > but if this doesn't work, I kind of wonder if there is anything else > that I have missed that doesn't work either. Thanks. You should check out your /etc/services file, there are a couple of lines at the end of it that look like this: # stuff to play net games #sgi-dogfight 5130/udp # dog fighting with others #arena 5131/udp to get both arena and dog to work remove the "#" in the first column on both of those lines and then it should work -- "What is the greatest joy?" "The joy of duty!" Miq Millman -- miq@sgi.com or {sun,decwrl,pyramid,ucbvax}!sgi!miq 415 960 1980 x1041 work
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) (11/22/88)
I made the change you suggested. I added the following line to /etc/services: sgi-dogfight 5130/udp # 'dog' It didn't work. I have a 3130, does that make any difference. I still get the following: Ethernet init failed Any more suggestions?
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) (11/22/88)
I tried your changes to /etc/services, but I still get the same error. Someone told me once that you need to run a "server" program before you can get dog, etc. to run, is this correct?
dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (11/24/88)
In article <22316@sgi.SGI.COM> miq@chromavac.SGI.COM (Miq Millman) writes: > >You should check out your /etc/services file, there are a couple of lines at >the end of it that look like this: > ># stuff to play net games >#sgi-dogfight 5130/udp # dog fighting with others >#arena 5131/udp What version of the kernel & what machine? Our 2400T's running GL2-W3.6 don't seem to have this. The original question came from someone also running 3.6. Will the 3.6 version of dog/shadow/etc run with TCP if we just add the above lines to /etc/services, or does it require newer versions? (I can't easily test this myself, since we deleted dog and the rest when we found that they didn't work.)
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) (11/29/88)
We have a 3130 with GL2-W3.6; dog, shadow, etc. don't work. The manual says that in 3.6 they are TCP/IP, but I don't know if that is true. I made the above changes, but they didn't help. I have been told that a server program , atc (air taffic controler), must be run, but we don't have it.