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| ReoDon 2001-05-21, 7:26 pm |
| Hey,
Has anyone set up a NW5 server as a router? We have a server with a token-ring card and ethernet card in it. Both cards have IPX and IP bound to them. The workstations on the ethernet segment cannot ping the token-ring card in the server. The workstations can ping the ethernet card in the server. The server can ping the gateway which is a cisco router. The main network is token-ring.
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So any ideas? I looked in inetcfg, tcpcon and the initsys.ncf files and I'm baffled.
Don | |
| chunder 2001-05-23, 5:26 pm |
| i did a little searching and came up with this TID. http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/s...i?/10013002.htm
have you set a default route? sorry, i'm mostly shooting from the hip since i have never done this. interesting to hear if/how it works.
HTH | |
| Clkuhl 2001-05-24, 9:14 am |
| Yep, That's correct. We had to do that in our test environment. You have to set a static Route. It works like a charm. Let me know if you have any questions....
Chris | |
| ReoDon 2001-05-26, 6:24 pm |
| You guys were right about the default route. There wasn't one set. I did that and the server was able to ping other servers on the WAN past its cisco router, but I still cannot ping the ethernet card from any WS/server on the token-ring side of the server. I'm thinking the subnet masks or ip address is wrong somewhere.
Don | |
| dheinsdorf 2001-05-28, 11:13 pm |
| Don,
Its been a while and my 5.1 box is down right now but what you need to mess with is plugging in some subnet IP addresses into the "Static Routes" routing table. No matter the amount of NICS in the box, theres going to be one gateway and a routing table for the next hop. As far as IPs and masks go, as long as a client on a particular subnet (NIC in the box) is set for that server boxes NIC as its gateway, and you can ping it, then the static routing table holds the map to get to the next subnet.
Sorry so vague but hope it helps. I am going to try to get my server going - okay, its back up now. Goto inetcfg, protocols,tcp/ip, enable LAN static routing, select LAN static routing table, insert, route type = Network, then plug in some values so the various subnets you have reference each other.
Doug
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Originally posted by ReoDon
You guys were right about the default route. There wasn't one set. I did that and the server was able to ping other servers on the WAN past its cisco router, but I still cannot ping the ethernet card from any WS/server on the token-ring side of the server. I'm thinking the subnet masks or ip address is wrong somewhere.
Don
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