[3829] in testers
Re: tethercheck in net-tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jul 22 22:57:19 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, helpnet@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, foley@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:25:50 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:57:00 EDT
> The command tethercheck is in net-tools, and it works on "regular" athena
> machines, but it is not working on machines upgraded to 8.2 - We tried on
> imagineer.mit.edu and other Athena (OLC) machines.
This appears to be due to the removal of /usr/athena/bin/tftp in 8.2.
The tftp binary in /usr/bin (at least on the sun) has a slightly
different interface.
network/foley: I see a couple of solutions to this problem that don;t
include replacing /usr/athena/bin/tftp (I'm assuming it was dropped
for a reason). 1) if the non-Radius stuff is sufficiently
unsupported, you can nuke that whole part of the script keeping only
the first 4 and last 2 lines. 2) replacing the tftp line with the
following seemed to work where I tried it (under both 8.1 and 8.2),
although I didn't do extensive testing:
echo "get /xyplex/${USERNAME}/ppp /tmp/tether-${SYSTEM}" | tftp -g /tmp/tether-${SYSTEM} ${SYSTEM} /xyplex/${USERNAME}/ppp >/dev/null 2>&1
The word kluge does come to mind tho.
Jonathon
