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Article #610Re: mixing 3com and Interlan boards?
From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 1985 19:51
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 1985 19:51
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> We recently got the stuff installed, that is we had a SUN 2/120 with 3com,
> and bought a NI1010A + NT100 xcvr + all the cabling from the local Interlan
> reps. ...
> I installed it all myself, and turned the stuff on, rebooted, and voila, no
> problems at all. Rcp and rlogin worked right away. Rwho will NEVER work, it
> seems, ...
"rwho" is frequently a pain in the fundament, because it relies on 1)
broadcasting working and 2) a machine receiving its own broadcast packets.
3Com's UNIBUS ethernet controllers don't receive their own packets; the
driver kludges around this by shoving broadcast packets into the loopback
driver. We had to do the same on our Power 6/32 with ACC Ethernet
controllers. We also have an Integrated Solutions machine on our Ethernet
and it doesn't seem to be successfully broadcasting "rwho" packets; it seems
to be receiving our VAXes and Power 6's "rwho" packets OK.
Guy Harris
{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
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