My original question was:
>Does anyone have any experience managing a Digital UNIX system where
>there are two (or more) class C Internet licenses running on the same
>backbone with a router between? I've figured out most of the problems I
>was having before but now I can't make 'rwho' or 'ruptime' work on my
>AlphaStation (on 199.234.162.nn) to machines on the other network
>(192.102.232.nn). I'm not running routed or gated and have a static
>route set up that points to my gateway. I can ping across the gateway
>and telnet but rwho information doesn't seem to get across. I've even
>gotten desperate enough to try 'ifconfig tu0 -promisc' to no avail.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It appears that this won't work because rwho and ruptime use broadcast
datagrams which aren't routed. It may be possible to use static routes
but that's not terribly flexible. I ended up bailing out and changing my
IP number to the network where all of the other machines were located.
Thanks to the following folks who responded:
Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>
Ross Alexander <rwa_at_cs.athabascau.ca>
Steffen Kluge <kluge_at_ave.ac.agit.de>
nam_at_sharpwa.com
Larry Griffith <larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu>
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
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Carlisle, PA 17013
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Received on Fri Mar 01 1996 - 21:17:00 NZDT