At 10:00 PM 6/8/2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have now the two VAX6450s with CIBCA and connected through the
>star coupler. I was eager to see them talk IP through the CI
>but unfortunately it doesn't work. I'm under Ultrix 4.5 and I
>use
>
>ifconfig scs0 inet 192.168.17.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>on the one machine and
>
>ifconfig scs0 inet 192.168.17.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>on the other machine. If I check the status with just
>
>ifconfig scs0
>
>It says it's up and fine. But ping self doesn't work and ping
>each other doesn't work either. From reading the scs man
>page, it mumbles something about host numbers having to be
>between 1 and 15. But I have no clue what they mean. I don't
>know my CI node numbers either. I'm wondering if I should
>know those and configure them somehow. I also wonder if this
>SCS IP has some arp? Would be really cool to have tcpdump
>for Ultrix. What's the best way to step by step get a CI
>system debugged?

I seem to remember that the low byte needs to match the
CI port number.  It does not do arp.


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