21 Nov
2000
21 Nov
'00
1:29 p.m.
At 05:27 PM 11/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
I plan to hang all the DEC machines off DELNIs (real ones :), with a
10baseT/AUI adapter to a 10/100 switch (not hub). That way my PCs can
talk to each other and the outside world at 100MBs, and the VAXes
don't have to listen to them. Why should me VAXes be interrupted by
the constant chatter of WIN98?
clint
This reminds me of a quirk in the EE department's network; some NT boxes
here rely on some flavor of NIS for authentication, but they have to
be ping'ed every few seconds at a specific port or the NT yp client
dies. To avoid that, one of the servers sends a bogus yp packet to
_every_ IP address on the network every now and then. Unix machines
don't like it; portmap logs in a couple flavors unix have to be disabled
in order not to generate an entry every few seconds. In others,
/etc/syslog.conf can be modified to avoid this. Fortunately, we're behind
a firewall. But having to acommodate idiotic NT needs sure sucks.