Thicknet (was Re: BBS's)

From: Carlos Murillo <cem14_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Tue Nov 21 21:29:50 2000

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.
Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 21:29:50 GMT