barad@tulane.tulane.edu (Herb Barad) (06/12/88)
I am experiencing some weird problems. We have a Mac II running the released version of A/UX connected to a Sun 3/280 running 4.0 of Sun's OS. I have assigned ethernet numbers as follows: 192.9.200.0 bourbon # our Sun 192.9.200.10 prytania # the Mac II In /etc/NETADDRS, I have used both 192.9.200.10 and 192.9.200.255 as the broadcasting address. What is this used for anyway? There is no equivalent on the Sun. When I boot the Mac, I get the following: loop: bad value lo0: 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 flags=400<LOOPBACK> 1 Ethernet card(s) installed ae0: hostname is prytania with IP address of 192.9.200.10 broadcasting with 192.9.200.255 ae0: 192.9.200.10 netmask ffffff00 flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> broadcast: 192.9.200.255 with the very same messages when I used 192.9.200.10 for the broadcasting address. So, here's what I notice. I CAN mount an NFS volume from the Sun. I mount /home on the Mac and then I do a listing of /home. Sometimes it is there and sometimes it is not!??! That is, when I do an 'ls /home' I sometimes get nothing (as though it were emtpy) and sometimes I get some files. By the way, I did mount the volume using rsize=1024 and wsize=1024 as was suggested before. I cannot get ypinit to copy the YP files from the master (i.e. the Sun). So, I can't get YP to work yet. Anyway, NFS is not consistent. I can't rcp (I get a timeout) and ypxfr complains about a TCP connection. All this is leaving me to believe that my ethernet connection might be a bit flakey. I have a short fairly new cable (~ 30 feet) and it is terminated on each end. Any ideas? An explaination of /etc/NETADDRS would be nice as well. -- Herb Barad Electrical Engineering Dept., Tulane Univ. INTERNET: barad@tulane.edu USENET: barad@tulane.uucp
jackie@Apple.COM (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan) (06/14/88)
In article <142@tulane.tulane.edu>, barad@tulane.tulane.edu (Herb Barad) writes: > loop: bad value > lo0: 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 flags=400<LOOPBACK> Hello, First thing to try: Check that the loop-back entry exists in /etc/hosts. It should look something like this: 127.0.0.1 loop loo lo Software_Loopback Hope this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: I works heres, buts theys don'ts knows I's cans types. :-) Whats I's says iss nots necessarilys whats mys employers says. :-( Hernan 'Jackie' Macapanpan amdahl \ Technical Communications/A/UX Hotline pyramid!sun - apple!jackie Apple Computer, Inc. (408) 996-1010 decwrl / ----------------------------------------------------------------------------