Original question at bottom of this posting. Responses from: Frank Smith <fsmith@hoovers.com> Gert-Jan Hagenaars <gj@hagenaars.com> Wolfgang Kandek <wolfgang@myplay.com> Kenny G. Raby <Kenny.G.Raby@disney.com> Scott D Thornberry <thornbs@basf-corp.com> willief <willief@base-2.com> I got them running. One respondent clued me in to the factory default password. Another gave me links to some online documentation. Another gave me some configuration lines: DEFINE SERVER INTERNET ADDRESS ##.###.##.# DEFINE SERVER INTERNET SUBNET MASK AUTOCONFIGURE DISABLED DEFINE SERVER INTERNET SUBNET MASK ###.###.####.# DEFINE SERVER INTERNET PRIMARY GATEWAY ADDRESS ###.###.### DEFINE SERVER INTERNET BROADCAST ADDRESS ##.###.##.### That information, some additional web searching, and some playing around got the job done. Basically, it appears that the bootp process on the Xyplex MaXserver 1600 is partially broken. These date back to when the protocol was brand new. Anyway, they don't get their netmask and gateway properly from bootp. also, I had been trying SET SERVER INTERNET ADDRESS ##.###.##.# SET SERVER INTERNET SUBNET MASK ###.###.####.# SET SERVER INTERNET PRIMARY GATEWAY ADDRESS ###.###.### unfortunately, that appears to be useless. it sets live memory, and I thought it would use it, but it doesn't seem to. I can set all that, try telnet, and still not be able to get out of my subnet. using DEFINE instead of SET sets the non-volatile memory, which then gets used on the reboot. then everything works and I can telnet out of my subnet. I also tried pulling the power plug when I went home, plugging it back in the next morning, and it worked just fine when I plugged it back in. So they are resistent to power outages in this way -- I won't have to go running in to reconfigure them. From here it is just refinement and security. At the moment the bootp redirects them to my tftp server where they get their load file. I would like to be able to get them to load their configuration and a menu as part of the boot process. then I could take all the security and additional configuration stuff that I have and get it into all of them without having to type it in to every single one. Thanks to all those who helped. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk -- O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <choogend@library.umass.edu> --------------- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Xyplex Terminal Servers bootp setup & process Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:30:01 -0500 From: Chris Hoogendyk <choogend@library.umass.edu> Reply-To: choogend@library.umass.edu Organization: UMass Library To: Sun Managers <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> Anyone familiar with Xyplex MaXserver 1600 Terminal Servers and their bootp process? I've inherited a situation where support was dropped and the people who did it are no longer available. I have to get them working from my own server. I've set up bootp and tftp and managed to get them presumably doing a bootp and getting their load file from my server, but it only works within my subnet. I can't get it across subnets for the branch libraries, and I just realized that the ones that "work" here cannot telnet across campus. When I connected with a terminal and asked it to show me the server's IP configuration (SHOW SERVER IP at the Xyplex prompt), the subnet mask and gateway had not been set. But the bootp server is configured to set both of those. If someone is familiar with this kind of setup, I would greatly appreciate being able to exchange a few technical questions. At this stage I don't know whether I should be focusing attention on the terminal server configuration or on my setup of bootp on the server. One thing that might be useful is if I could force the whole thing to factory settings with some default password for SET PRIVILEGE that would allow me to get in and control everything. At the moment, I can control some configuration information by going in under single user mode; but, there is other stuff that appears to be available if only I had a password (these things ran for years without any intervention, people retired, other people got moved to other projects and departments, ...) xyplex was a strong believer in security by obscurity. in the single user mode it claims it is busy loading if you hit the return key. but, if you type "access" and return, you get a menu that allows you to change the basic configuration. I can also telnet to a running terminal server, but it doesn't give me any prompt and I don't know what it is looking for. I have about a dozen of these among three branches. Anyway, I could fill this up with other questions, but there is no point unless I get some response to the basic questions. TIA --------------- Chris Hoogendyk -- O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <choogend@library.umass.edu> --------------- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Apr 10 16:12:31 2002
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