[HECnet] New Nodes

[Christine Caulfield]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
Angela Kahealani wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 08:16:57 Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hmm. Is this the same machine as is running the bridge?

      Johnny
Yes, is that a problem?
Could very well be. The problem is that the bridge program cannot
exactly feed the ethernet input on the same machine as it is running,
nor hear data sent out on the ethernet port of the same machine. That
is, unless the hardware will do this for you. Some hardware do, but
most don't. So you don't see your own data, which makes it impossible
for my bridge program to handle the machine it itself is running on.

      Johnny

I think I separated the bridge and linuxDECnet dnetd onto separate
NICs so they can see each other...
dnetinfo shows:
The next hop to the nearest area router is node 0.0

        Node                           Cost       Hops     Next hop to node
    1.10                                     4           1       if0         ->     1.266
    1.500   kahea                     0           0       lo           ->     1.500   kahea

but I don't seem to see any neighbors, so maybe still not right.

That table looks so wrong that it's horrible. :-)
I don't even dare guessing exactly what is wrong at your end...


It's not quite as bad as it looks. 'lo' is a loopback link to the local
node (which is correct). I'm not sure where the other two nodes come
from though!

By they way, Angela, you don't need to be running dnroute if your node
is an end-node (which it seems to be). In a situation where the rest of
it doesn't seem to be working properly it's only confusing the issue I
suspect :)


Chrissie