Problems with aviator dogfight mode

Toerless Eckert Toerless.Eckert at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Sat Dec 8 11:52:00 AEST 1990


FYI:

The problem with aviator and the GX segment driver is well known, and can
easily be fixed if you don't need the segment driver otherwise.  We have
encountered another problem when starting aviator on machines that have
(for example) SunLink X.25 installed: Aviator complains that it cannot set
the multicast address and disables dogfight mode.

The explanation to this is as follows:

Aviator uses the first interface that it encounters. When installing
SunLink X.25, the two serial interfaces on the CPU board become interfaces
(otherwise they are only devices) and they come usually before the
ethernet interfaces (can be seen with "netstat -ina").  This also causes
trouble with diskless workstations, that also use these interfaces cause
of malicious the "first fit" code.  Put the line configuring the ethernet
that you want to use with aviator before all other lines that configure
interfaces, especially before the "zs0" line.

Hope that helps
Toerless Eckert



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