From: Marc G Fournier (marcf@nexus.yorku.ca)
Date: 06/16/93


From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Nfs-mount & RPC/network hanging/nntp inews
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 15:39:00 GMT


arthur@ptt-iat.uucp (Arthur Donkers) writes:

>For all you guys who want to change their networkcard settings :

>(p10/NET-2 only !!)
>look in the file /usr/src/linux/net/inet/CONFIG. It contains the settings
>for you card.

        Thanks to all who responded to this...I have that ethernet card
working now too :)

        Now, a couple of new (and old) problems still to be resolved, or
at least see if they are known :)

        1 - anyone get 'network' lockup using Linux? We have a network
            of three computers right now, two running Linux, the third
            running Unixware, that we are hooking up to the Internet
            this afternoon. It seems that once in a while (pattern seems
            to be rlogin'ng out of Linux (rlogin in works fine)), the
            whole network locks up (can't type anything on any of the
            systems) until we reboot one of the Linux systems...anyone
            experience this, or have any ideas of a possible cause?

        2 - mounting Linux file system to Unixware using nfs. All of
            a sudden yesterday, I started getting those 'RPC' errors
            something about Program authentication or whatever it is :(
            I know it was greatly talked about before, and I looked
            back through *all* the articles that my University news
            server has in comp.os.linux, and can't find the thread, so
            it must have expired.
            It seems to have just sprung up, because we've been using the
            nfs stuff for the past week or so, and even had one fs
            nfs-mounted when I tried to mount another and got the error
            Please...why did the error occur...and why just suddenly? :(
            and of course...how can I fix it?

        3 - nntp inews...anyone have a working copy? I got nntp-1511A
            from tsx-11 (I think, or sunsite), and got the nntp server
            running on the one Linux box, but when I compile and try
            nntp-inews on the other, it just grinds away at the hard drive
            for two minutes, and then just hangs. If we try on the Unixwar
            box, we get an error back at least...saying it can't find the
            news host, so if that was the problem, wouldn't the Linux side
            produce the same or similar error instead of hanging?
              

Thanks for any insight or help you may be able to offer...

Marc