puzzling tcpip problem. ODM messed up?

[Bruce Johnson]

In article <1991Jun11.203549.4994 at milton.u.washington.edu> eliot at engr.washington.edu (Eliot Lim) writes:
>
>I've been called in to fix an RS6000 which has been fubar'd by people
>who didn't know what they were doing.  It concerns tcpip.  First, some
>details:
>
>- running 3005/3.1.5 code
>
>- nothing outside can come in.  only ping from outside gets a response.

No guarantees that this will work, but I mentioned to yates at a.chem.upenn.edu
that several people had been complaining about no incoming calls after
going to 3005.  His response:

#You mentioned a problem telnetting in after the upgrade. Well, this morning
#we observed the same thing. However, the cure is simple. Go into smit,
#System Environments and Processes, and Change Number of licensed users
#to more than 1-2 . We set ours to 2-32.

It would be a cruel twist if a simple default flag like this was the
culprit.  Let us know if it is or not.

Bruce Johnson
johnson at horta.rice.edu