I have a customer running 3.2D-1 on a 8200. They are experiencing
intermittent problems across their network (WAN). They are running
Sybase with a few hundred users on their network spread
geographically across the country. I have a configured a default
route in /etc/routes to point to their main cisco router/gateway
where all the Sybase Clients across the country come into.
This default router is running RIP between the 8200 and the router
and it is running OSPF between all the routers(CISCO) across the country.
The problem: Every now and again no one can login and the 8200
looses its' default route. It is not possible to "ping" remote hosts
- however from other hosts on the same network segment as the 8200, they can
see these remote hosts!?
When I do a "netstat -r" the default route has disappeared. I either
have to reboot or do a #rcinet restart to resolve this problem. Lately I have solved this
problem by adding a route online by using the
"route add -host hostname gateway" or "route add -net network
gateway". However /etc/routes with the default router should do the
trick, shouldn't it?
This customer is busy setting up a Windowns NT DNS server and firewall.
Would it be better to configure the 8200 as a DNS client? Possibly it
wouldn't rely so heavily on routes. The 8200 /etc/hosts file is
updated with all the relevant hosts and routers. Could an ip
conflict be causing these problems?
Please guys - any suggestions or ideas would be welcome.
Thanks
Paulo
Received on Wed Jan 08 1997 - 12:43:01 NZDT