[30676] in Hotline Meeting
Problem w/WHOI's /etc/netmasks under Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric F. Cunningham)
Thu Nov 2 16:50:48 1995
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:50:00 -0500
From: "Eric F. Cunningham" <eric@salmon.whoi.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: eric@salmon.whoi.edu, helpdesk@whoi.edu, bwmelans@MIT.EDU, jjmorey@MIT.EDU
Hi. The /etc/netmasks file for the WHOI Solaris Athena workstations is not
correct. For this site, we also need a line in this file like this:
128.128 255.255.252.0
What is happening is whenever these workstations (quahog, squeteague and
menhaden) reboot, a new netmasks file is downloaded overwriting this local
change. The result is the inability for students to get out to other
machines not on MIT's network or other machines not on the Solaris machine's
subnet. Similarly, I am unable to rlogin/telnet remotely to these machines
for administrative purposes. The source netmasks there would need to be
updated to reflect this. Can this be done? In the meantime, when any of
these machines reboot, I must manually edit netmasks and restart networking.
The DECstation tautog is not affect by this since it is running Ultrix.
Thanks for your help.
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Eric Cunningham - WHOI Athena Site Administrator
Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 289-2224
fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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