Thanks to:
Roger Picard
Sean O'Connell
Suggestions:
/dev/kmem might not be accessable
and
I have seen this sort of thing when I rebuilt a kernel and
copied the new one over /vmunix w/o rebooting and/or when
booting off genvmunix (i think). I believe that some of
these commands are hardcoded to look at /vmunix. Just a
thought (may be off-base).
You can use sizer to see what kernel was booted: sizer -b
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Indeed /dev/kmem did not belong to the mem group. Changing this
however made no difference.
sizer -b did indeed reveal that the machine was booted off
the generic kernel. As the previous admin is no longer there, I've
not yet been able to confirm this as the problem, but I'd be
suprised if it's not. If it proves not to be the cause, I'll post
to that effect.
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Original question:
Alpha 2000 DU 3.2B
I have an Alpha which I only have remote access to, barring a road trip.
Although the machine seems to function fine (I can ping, telnet, etc),
I've discovered that the output of netstat and arp produce what to me is
unknown jibberish. The default route points to the router; however the
output of these commands is the same even when disconnected from the
network. Don't see an error from uerf either. I'm down to wondering if
there's a permissions problem on a device file or something of that
nature, but I have no idea where to start. Netsetup looks OK to me.
Any explainations and possible solutions gratefully accepted
See arp, netstat, netsetup, ifconfig, uerf below
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
arp -a
arp: can't get memory for arptab.
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netstat -f inet
???
???
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netstat -rn:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
Route Tree for Protocol Family -2146661532: #<<<<What??????
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
(0) (0) 0 0
ad nausuem
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ifconfig tu0
tu0: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
inet 165.201.82.7 netmask ffffffc0 broadcast 165.201.82.63 ipmtu
1500
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Current software configuration in /etc/rc.config: (from netsetup)
HOSTNAME = kccwildcat2.kcc.state.ks.us
NUM_NETCONFIG = 1
NETDEV_0 = tu0
IFCONFIG_0 = 165.201.82.7 netmask 255.255.255.192
RWHOD = yes
ROUTED = yes
ROUTED_FLAGS = -q
GATED = no
GATED_FLAGS =
ROUTER = no
MAX_NETDEVS = 24
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uerf:
tu0 at pci0
tu0: DEC TULIP Ethernet Interface,
_hardware address: 08-00-2B-E6-4C-4E
tu0: auto sensing: selected AUI
_(10Base2|5) port
Received on Fri Aug 07 1998 - 16:21:03 NZST