Re: (PM) Pipelines and multiple NAS: Gateway?

Tom (tom@sdf.com)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 09:13:43 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Howard Leadmon wrote:

> Just be careful, as the reported_ip command will only work if it's
> inside the same netblock as the real Ethernet address!! So putting
> something like 127.0.0.2 for the address will not work on the PM.

BS. Doing it here on a 7 PM3 modem pool.

> I found this out the hardware when I wanted to move a PM to a different
> subnet, but didn't want the users to have to change their gateway address.
> So I set the reported_ip to the old gateway address and everything died,
> and a call to Livingston support revealed the above info.

Are you sure? Sounds more like some other kind of problem?

Tom

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