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Internet address help: THANKS

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From: fax0236
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 03:47
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Thanks to those people who responded to my request for Internet address help
for our diskless DECstation 3100's.  I neglected to mention that we are 
still under ULTRIX 3.1 (we go to 4.1 this weekend) but the help was good just
the same.

One comment.  Many people told us we needed to change the node addresses (in 
hexidecimal) in the file netblock.c.  Well, that is how you would pronounce
the name, but the actual file is netblk.c and we spent half a day trying to
figure out why we didn't have netblock.c (thought it was a problem at 3.1,
but no...).  We now have the workstations booting in single user mode, but
still cannot get them into multiuser mode.  Hopefully we can fix them before
upgrading, or maybe the upgrade will fix the problem.

By the way, all the help (with one exception) came from users, not from DEC.
That includes my calls to two technical persons at local or semilocal 
DEC offices (no names or locations).  These guys have no experience or 
knowledge when it comes to a diskless environment, and one guy just couldn't
be bothered to return calls or offer help.  I must say, though, that one
person from DEC in JAPAN (!) responded with the correct help (although he
too called the file netblock.c).  Thanks to that person (you know who you
are) as well as all the others (again).

Doug Smith
The University of Toledo
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