OT Sco Unix question

[Brian K. White]

On 8/27/2011 2:41 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Del propounded (on Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:32:28AM -0400):
>
> | Hi:
> |
> | I am running Filepro on SCO 5.0.6.  Recently I had to replace my
> | router, and now SCO is not accessing the network.  Can't ping the
> | router at all.  Can't ping the SCO box from my PC.  I don't know
> | much about networking, but I guess this is because the new router
> | (Cisco RVS-4000) is configured to allocate dynamic IP addresses, and
> | SCO is not set up for that.
>
> Run netconfig.  Select to Modify Protocol.  Set DHCP Client to Yes.
>
> You may need to reboot.
>

I can't for the life of me imagine why you would say to do that given 
the original post and the mention of pc's that need to facetwin-vtp in.

It's too destructive to have been a joke, and you know all the things 
that will break and become either impossible or impractical or at best 
unreliable.

There's all kinds of work arounds that can let this work possibly, like 
for instance hoping the dhcp server has an option to reserve addresses 
by mac addresses. Otherwise he'll need a local dns server to give the 
unix box a stable hostname at least, and that dns server will need to be 
automatically updated somehow every time the unix box ip changes...

What are you thinking? Relying on windows netbios resolution to pick up 
when the facetwin server advertises itself? I don't know if that even 
works in vtp but I have seen windows resolve by netbios once in a blue moon.

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bkw