Summary: SUNATM and CDE-Printing questions

From: Otto Reidinger (Otto.Reidinger@FernUni-Hagen.de)
Date: Wed Jun 25 1997 - 02:49:45 CDT


1. Problem with ATM-interfaces:

The ATM-interfaces still are not working correctly.

Our problem is:
> After the installation and configuration of an emulated LAN -
> (we used the same hostname and IP address as with interface le0,
> which was plugged off and disabled by removing /etc/hostname.le0)
> we had the systems successfully rebooted.
>
> A few weeks later, after I had installed the "Recommended-Patches-Set"
> for Solaris 2.5.1 out of SunSolve CDROM February 1997, the following
> errors appeared during the boot process:
>
> ..
> ..
> The system is coming up. Please wait.
> q93b on ba0: Data Link Up.
> Configuring ATM interfaces: ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: lane68:
> cannot assign requested address

There was one answer which pointed me to PATCHes: 104539-01, 104694-02 and 104845-01.

PATCH 104539-01 had been installed before, the others are of minor importance. (In their READMES is the notice: ".. This is a point patch for a specific customer. ..").

I provide some more information about our situation:

Our ATM-Boxes, where the LANE is switched are CISCO, type : LS1010. The software these are running with is: "IOS PNNI Software LS1010-WP-M, Version 11.1(9)".

When the hosts have booted (via le0), the ATM-Interface seems to be running anyhow. (It is not used, because it is not configured correctly.) In this situation we get the following errors: WARNING: laner(lane68): bad control frame (too short), vci=44 or: WARNING: laner: bad control frame (too short).

My question is, does anybody know if the CISCO-Boxes/Software Configuration, which gives these errors, may cause our problems?

2. Problem with Printing from CDE

The problem with the printing is solved:

>Some of our hosts don't print from CDE, e.g. dtmail won't print:
>Our default printer has an ethernet interface and hostname.

Printing from Openwindows' applications and the other applications had been correct, because everything was given explicitely postscript-filtered to the printer.

>From the "errorlog" in ~/.dt I found the lp system was missing the information about the filters on the workstation, so I looked up INFODOC ID: 2097 from SunSolve-CD : "Solaris 2 printer configuration commands - quick reference" and found:

Register bundled PostScript filters using the lpfilter command. From sh:

   # cd /etc/lp/fd
   # for filt in `ls | sed 's/\.fd//'`
> do
> lpfilter -f $filt -F $filt.fd
> done
   #
This did it!

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Otto Reidinger
LG Prakt. Inf. III
Feithstr. 140
D-58084 Hagen, Germany
email: otto.reidinger@fernuni-hagen.de
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Tel.: ++02331-987-2174



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