Annex Terminal Servers...

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Hi Pete,

   Right on the money!   I didn't set the gateway address, that was why 
it was receiving packets and not responding back, its working perfectly 
now, I VNC'd to one of my outside boxes, open a telnet session to the IP 
and viola!   I got the cli prompt and accessed the port the Vax is on 
and it responded.



Curt



Pete Turnbull wrote:

>On Mar 26 2005,  0:21, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
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>>Anyone here familiar with Annex Terminal Servers
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>I have one at work, where it was used mainly to provide dialup access,
>offering both telnet and PPP.  I also have one at home, where it
>presently connects to a couple of terminals, a couple of SGI consoles,
>a PDP-8, and will eventually connect a few more consoles (when I make
>up the cables).  It has reasonable security so my eventual aim is to
>have it accessible from the Internet, for much the same reason you want
>to hook up your Vax.  I wouldn't connect it to the internet until you
>have set up the security.
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>>I have one unit up and working like a charm on my vax system so I can
>>use my PC to control the console port over my LAN.    The Annex Term
>>server is working fine on my local subnet, however for some reason it
>>will not talk across from a remote system on another subnet through
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>my
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>>firewall/router...
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>You probably don't have all the configuration set up.  I have the
>manuals, about 9" of shelf space, and the remote management software.
> You don't actually need that management software, but it does make
>life easier.
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>My guess is that you don't have the gateway address (and/or subnet
>mask) correctly set.  I assume you know to use the "su" command from
>the CLI to the superuser prompt, then the "admin" command to get to the
>admin mode, and "show annex all" (etc) to see the configuration?  You
>need that to set the subnet mask (and many other things).
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>You don't set a default gateway like that, though.  The annex uses its
>routing table for that, and you can either set a static route using the
>"route" command or by putting the route(s) you want in the "gateways"
>section of the config file which it loads when it boots.  You can
>display the routes using "netstat -r" and "netstat -C".
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>After I compiled the software, I corrected a few of the manpages and
>wrote a few extra ones, which I'll send you by private email.  In the
>meantime, here's a few useful URLs:
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>http://www25.nortelnetworks.com/library/rannex/relnotes/R10.1A-Release_Notes.html
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>http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/annex/
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>http://lost-contact.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/project/afs32/andrew/netdev/sun4_413/usr/var/spool/erpcd/bfs/
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