🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello all

Can anyone shed any light on this problem:-

We have two Sequent machines, an S27 running Dynix version 3.1.2
and an S700 running Dynix/ptx version 1.3.0. The problem is the same
on both machines.

Both these machines are connected to various Sun's and Vaxes over ethernet.
There seems to be no problem with the Vaxes, but with the Sun's we seem 
to loose parts of the arp tables and then cannot connect to the machines
concerned. The arp -a display looks like this:-

  $ arp -a
    -  -  -  
  sunserver2 (134.151.40.14) at (incomplete)
    -  -  -
  $ 

When you try to connect to sunserver2 with the addresses in this state
the connection just hangs. By adding the address manually with:-

  arp -s sunserver2 <ethenet-address>

all works fine, until the next time the address gets lost. 

Sequent support here in England tell me it's a known bug and is being
looked at in the States. Does anyone else know of or have this problem,
has it been fixed yet, or is it likely to be fixed soon.

Any information would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

Roy

  
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