>now I cant remember how to get linux to barf up the broadcast > address it is using, > Try issuing the command "ifconfig" -- it should tell you.
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton Be!' and all was light." - Alexander Pope "It did not last; the Devil howling 'Ho! Let Einstein Be!' restored the status quo." - John Collings Squire "God Rolled his dice, to Einstein's great dismay: 'Let Feynman Be!' and all was clear as day." - Jagdish Mehra Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph. D. VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: James Melin > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux NFS shares and Windoze interoperability > > Of course, now I cant remember how to get linux to barf up the broadcast > address it is using, but if memory serves, for all my linuxes, the IP > addresses are 137.70.100.xxx and the default gateway is 137.70.100.3, the > netmask is set to 255.255.254.0. We orignally had a netmask of > 255.255.255.0 but I changed to to ...254.0 per my network group after the > install. The broadcast address that was set at install time was, I'm quite > sure 137.70.100.255. So what is the implication of changing the netmask > after the install? Is that part of what is causing this? > > Curiously, while doing the"'my network places'---->NFS Nework--->add/remove > NFS LANs" fails, entering the DNS name as \\nokomis in the address bar DOES > in fact pull up the NFS shares on that machine and I can navigate them. So > that's a plus. > > > > > > "Fargusson.Alan" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tb.ca.gov> To > Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 390 Port cc > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> Subject > Re: Linux NFS shares and Windoze > interoperability > 04/27/2004 10:36 > AM > > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > Your broadcast address looks right to me. I don't know if I can explain > this well, but I will try. > > The subnet mask that you specified says that the subnet has a 9 bit host > address. Thus the last 9 bits of the IP address specifies the host on the > subnet. The broadcast address on this subnet has the last 9 bits on. In > general the broadcast address has all bits of the host part on. Therefore > the broadcast address is the upper 23 bits of the IP for the subnet with > all ones for the host part, which is 137.70.101.255. The 101 is due to the > fact that the last bit is on for the broadcast address. Note that 101 in > binary is 01100101 <- that last bit is one. A 100 would be 01100100. > > Now if you are sure that the broadcast address is wrong, then your subnet > mask must be wrong. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux NFS shares and Windoze interoperability > > > I have been unable to get that to actually see the linux instances on the > mainframe. If sees the linux PC in my cube which is also running NFS, and > it put that in the 'default lan' group. > > When I attempt to do the 'add' part it pops up a box saying add/remove NFS > LAN's, so I click add. > > I then get a box that says Add Broadcast Lan (not what I would expect but I > go with it) > > I wants a name to call it, so I put in nokomis. My linux guest running NFS. > > Then It wants "IP address of any Host in the LAN" - meaning what exactly?> > Dunno. I put the IP address of 'nokomis' in there > > Then it wants the subnet mask, and I enter that. Then it somehow gets the > broadcast address by itself, and from what I see it is getting it wrong, as > it's on a diff subnet. > > The IP address of nokimis is 137.70.100.134, and the net mask is > 255.255.254.0 but the broadcast address is being returned as > 137.70.101.255. > > As I vaguely recall, the 101 had somethign to do with the VIPA setup on our > OSA cards... I am confused here. > > > > > > Steve Gentry > <Stephen_R_Gentry > @LafayetteLife.co To > m> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent by: Linux on cc > 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject > IST.EDU> Re: Linux NFS shares and Windoze > interoperability > > 04/27/2004 09:08 > AM > > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IST.EDU> > > > > > > > James, since you said you installed Unix services, do you have an 'NFS > network' entry under 'Entire Network' (under 'My Network Places')? > IOW, My Network Places --> Entire Network --> NFS Network. If so did you > right click to add a new entry under NFS Network? I used the static > IP of my Linux machine when I config'd it for NFS Network. I also made > the necessary changes to the Linux side in /etc/exports and all worked > well, > albeit very slowly. I wasn't going to implement this into production, so > I wasn't to worried about the speed. But since the subject has been > brought up > does anyone know why the reponse time would be so slow? > > Steve Gentry > Lafayette Life Ins. 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