TCP/IP network configuration

[Dominick Samperi]

I'm responsible for the planning and configuration of an evolving TCP/IP
network, and the proliferation of X Terminals and PC's running TCP/IP
software on the network is beginning to concern me. Sun tech support has
claimed that NCD X Terminals can confuse rarpd so that diskless Sun
clients cannot boot. We have found that rarpd must be killed and then
restarted in order to boot an SLC (after it has been up for a few days),
and our X Terminals (NCD's) do not even use rarpd for booting (their IP
address is fetched from NVRAM). We often have to make several attempts to
boot our X Terminals due to intermittent TFTP failures (usually during
config/font file downloads).

Has anyone else experienced problems mixing X Terminals, PC's, and
workstations on the same network?

Dominick Samperi -- Citicorp
dsamperi at Citicorp.COM
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