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Hello Netland,

I'm new to this newsgroup, so please excuse me if the problems I have were
discussed previously.  I've just installed AIX v2.2.1 on our RT's.  I also
use NFS/AIX to integrate them with the other UN*X machines at our department.

Unfortunately there are some problems I have encountered. If you know of a
solution, please e-mail it to me (I'll summarize to the net)

Problem 1: /etc/group problem
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At our site, we use the yellow pages to store password and group membership
information.  It appears that group membership is limited to a maximum of
8 groups on AIX.  Rlogins from e.g. a VAX running Mt.Xinu 4.3BSD fail if you
are registered in more than 8 groups.
Is this a bug or a feature ? Are there ways to fix this problem ?

Problem 2: biod problem
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The "Managing the AIX OS" manual suggests to start a number (default 4) 
of "biod" daemons.  When I did this, the following occurred:
      
      - run a compile, and store the executable on a remote filesystem
      - try to execute the a.out ==> gives a memory fault

When I remove the "biod" daemons, the problem disappears.  What's happening
here?  Seems to me that there is something wrong with the caching algorithm.

Problem 3: gateway problem
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One of the RT's functions as a gateway between Ethernet and Token-Ring.
I run the routing daemon "routed" to broadcast availability of the Token-Ring
to networks attached to the Ethernet.  Works fine initially, but after a few
minutes the Token-Ring is no longer reachable!!! (strange! because it's
attached to my own machine).  Running "routed -t" with tracing enabled, shows
that broadcasts on the Token-Ring are also received by the machine performing
the broadcast.  If my interpretation is correct, a routing loop occurs: the
RT thinks there is a shorter route to the Token-Ring, namely through itself,
and it increases the hop-count.  At hop-count 16, the token-Ring disappears.
Is this a bug or a feature?  What can I do to set up my RT as a gateway 
between ethernet and Token-ring ???

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Herman Moons                                  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
				              Dept of Computer Science
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