AngieW wrote:
>
> Mike Brown wrote:
> > AngieW wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > > Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> > > > AngieW typed (on Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:20:48AM -0800):
> > > > | Hi All,
> > > > | Ive searched the archive for this but did not really find a
> > > resolution!
> > > > | Nice new fresh install of osr506 with the stanard sco ppp
> > > > | I removed sco ppp and rebooted.
> > > > | I then added 506a and rebooted.
> > > > | I then added mstppp 2.1.2 and rebooted again after the kernel
> > > relink.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2.1.2 ??
> > > > Not 2.1.5, or 2.1.4 ?
> > >
> > > It's 2.1.2a as I had tried 2,1,5a from the 507 cd with the same
> result
> > > befoer the
> > > server was reinstalled from square one.
> > > My one internal 506 box is what I used to test bed this and I used
> > > 2.1.5a from the
> > > 507 cd without any problems. My 506 media kit is out on loan so
> I've
> > > not been
> > > able to try 2.1.4a.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > I can't even hide the messages on tty12 with cn.console=12 in a the
> > > bootstring :-(
> > >
> > > They don't seem to cause any problem!
> > >
> > > >
> > > > | The dreadfull message that follows now pops up rather
> regularly.
> > > > | This is a line from syslog
> > > > | Dec 9 17:01:44 scosysv tunioctl(0): Unknown ioctl 0x00000005
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > JP
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Ang
> > > --
> > > angiedoteohdotcodotza
> >
> > Check to see when MSTPPP is up and running that the remote gateway,
> > and DNS servers entries are correct and are responding.
>
> Its got zippo to do with dns! Its a stanalone system with 2 win98/2k
> dialin users.
>
> > I have had better luck running the modem in full HW flow control
> mode,
> > which requires the MSTPPP config lines to be editted. In my setup I
> > used "rtscts-rtsflow" in the Account file.
>
> Errors pop up in the early boot phase and everytime I run netstat -a
> and most
> times a users connect to syspro60 on port 86 for mf cobol.
>
> Cheers
> Ang

Some daemons on SCO, such as telnet, may use DNS. Utilities like netstat
will use DNS to translate the the IP to a name. Does "netstat -an" work
without the error coming up? It may be that you only have to config the
hosts file with all the IP addresses in use, ie MSTPPP endpoints.

Mike

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Michael Brown