From: markp@cranham.cc.earlham.edu (Mark Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Help needed with routing Bootp using PCroute
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: markp@cranham.cc.earlham.edu


   HEELLLPPPP! I'm having a lot of problems configuring PC Route (the latest  
version - 2.2 I think) to enable BOOTP in a PC Lab. Here is a diagram of the  
current configuration :
     
   159.28.1.1
   ------           SLIP 19.2Kb              ----------       |
   |VAX |------------------------------------|PC Route|-------| PC Lab
   ------  231.254                     231.3 ---------- 30.1  | BOOTP
   BOOTP server
   
   PCs in the Lab send BOOTP requests but time out and fail.  The Vax  
definitely gets the request (if you disable the machine's bootp entry an error  
is registered). I'm not sure whether the problem is:
   a) The Vax may not be sending out replies on the right subnet or
   b) the Router not routing the reply from the Vax

Here is the PC Route log : 
******* PCroute starting *******
Interface 1 (ethernet)
    Address     159.28.30.1
    NetMask   255.255.255.0
    Flags     0000H
    Metric    0001H
    The Ethenet Address 0000H
    The Ethenet Address C01DH
    The Ethenet Address B651H
Interface 2 (slip)
    Address    159.28.231.3
    NetMask   255.255.255.0
    Flags     0000H
    Metric    0001H
    The SLIP baud divisor 0006H
STATIC ROUTES
    Route to network      159.28.1.0
    Through gateway   159.28.231.254
    Metric 0009H
    Flags  0002H
 
Forwarding BOOTP requests to            159.28.1.1
Logging messages to SYSLOGD on host      159.28.1.1
Logging level 0007H
Logging mask 0007H
******* PCroute closing log file *******

From the Lab I can ping 159.28.30.1, 159.28.231.254 but not 159.28.231.3
Why is this?
Similarly from the Vax I can ping the Lab but not the Vax end of the SLIP line  
(159.28.231.254)

This is one of the Multinet files on the Vax (I am standing in for the network  
administartor, hence my ignorance of Multinet):
 
MultiNet IP Routing tables:
Destination     Gateway         Flags        Refcnt Use        Interface
-----------     -------         -----        ------ ---        ---------
LOCALHOST       LOCALHOST       Up,Host      2      19         lo0
159.28.231.1    159.28.231.252  Up,Host      0      74         sl1
159.28.231.2    159.28.231.251  Up,Host      0      678        sl0
159.28.231.3    159.28.231.254  Up,Host      0      368        sl2
159.28.231.4    159.28.231.253  Up,Host      0      0          sl3
159.28.231.251  LOCALHOST       Up,Gateway,H 0      12         lo0
159.28.231.252  LOCALHOST       Up,Gateway,H 0      0          lo0
159.28.231.253  LOCALHOST       Up,Gateway,H 0      0          lo0
159.28.231.254  LOCALHOST       Up,Gateway,H 0      3          lo0
159.28.1.0      159.28.1.1      Up           4      288648     se0
159.28.30.0     159.28.231.3    Up,Gateway   3      2843       sl2
159.28.100.0    159.28.231.2    Up,Gateway   0      130116     sl0
159.28.101.0    159.28.231.2    Up,Gateway   0      0          sl0
159.28.230.0    159.28.1.6      Up,Gateway   0      10737      se0


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Mark H Pearson	            Coordinator of Academic Computing
Earlham College, Richmond, In 47374
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