On Sat, Mar 22, 2008, er wrote:
>Hi everyone! Is there a command for SCO OSR 5.0.5 to shutdown and
>ethernet NIC and then bring it back up? The command I'm looking for
>is similar to Linux's ifdown and ifup. The reason I'm asking is
>because every day, our SCO server would become unreachable over the
>network, yet the server remains up from the console. We have to
>"shutdown -g0" the server every time this happens.

In my experience, SCO OpenServer systems become unreachable most
frequently because it has routed running, and gets confused on
routing. Assuming that the system has a static route, edit the
file, /etc/tcp, and comment out the piece that starts routed.

The only other time I remember having an SCO system become
unreachable was while installing an SCO system at an ISP, and it
would not respond ever so often. I beat my head against the wall
for a while until I happened to notice my luggable screen where
it had notices that the ARP had changed for that IP. Somebody
had a PC in the back room that they had assigned the same IP as
the server, and that was causing the problem.

Bill
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