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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Alex,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It is one of those rare times, but I believe you need to be
corrected. Solaris will start in.routed and act like a router only when multiple
interfaces (le?, hme?, whatever) are defined and /etc/defaultrouter does NOT
exist.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>If /etc/defaultrouter exists, a Solaris box will always send I.P.
packets to the "default route" device whenever it is trying to communicate
to devices on segments not directly connected to it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I never do it myself or recommend to others using anything but the
standard Sun supplied mechanisms to configure any part of I.P. networking for
additional interfaces on a machine.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>John Metsker</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>General Mills, Inc </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Johnson,Alex [<A
HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 4:38 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Foxboro DCS Mail List</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: RE: Ethernet Networking Question</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The problem with defaultrouter that it supposedly starts the Solaris
routing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>software too. This is a bad thing since it would "publish"
the Nodebus IP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>addresses.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I can't say that I've tested that myself, but if someone (Darryl?) is
using</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>it do a ps -ef | grep in.routed and see if it is running. If it is,
you</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>could be publishing a bunch of IP addresses that are not
unique.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Regards,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Alex Johnson</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>The Foxboro Company</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>10707 Haddington</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Houston, TX 77043</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>-----Original
Message-----</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>From: Darryl
Bond [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>Sent:
Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:19 PM</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
SIZE=2>To: Foxboro DCS Mail List</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Ethernet Networking
Question</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>"Loupe, Rory"
wrote:</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>> You need to add the
router as the default gateway. First enter</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>"route add</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>> default
112.113.1.1", next edit /etc/fox/rc.foxapps and add "route</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>add</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>> default
112.113.1.1" to the file.</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>> Rory Loupe</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>The Sun way is to add the
entry for the router in /etc/hosts</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>112.113.1.1 router</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>Then create a file called
/etc/defaultrouter with the word 'router'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>in</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>it.</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>echo router
>/etc/defaultrouter</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>When Solaris boots it will
configure the default router for you.</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>Darryl Bond</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>NRG Gladstone</FONT>
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