Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!mhg From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Wollongong INSTALL requirements Message-ID: <8806161248.AA23798@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: 16 Jun 88 12:48:00 GMT References: <880610110635.00000AAE.IAJX.83@WYOCDC1> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 48 >I was just told by our network person to beware INSTALLing anything on >our cluster or modifying SYSTARTUP.COM because Wollongong claims their >software must be INSTALLed last! HUH? I.E. they say if you INSTALL >anything after their stuff, the Wollongong software may break. What the >blankety-blank are they doing? This really puts a crimp in any work the >rest of us have to do as we either must not do any INSTALLs, or we must >modify SYSTARTUP.COM and reboot! (I'd guess there are other solutions >that some of you can think of) > >We are still trying to squeeze out of them a good explanation of why this >is so; they seem to think it's just a simple product requirement, and >not a problem. What if we end up with TWO such products that must be >installed last? Do they think they're unique in the universe?? Grr. > >I'd like to hear from anybody who has any information on this, such as >speculation of why their product has this requirement, what they should >have done to get around it, what I can do to get around it, and so on. We have installed Wollongong's TCP/IP on our VAXcluster (8700, 8600, 785) and on MicroVAX II's. I have not heard that it has to be installed last; that's kind of rediculous. There are a couple of things though, that you should know (if you are not already aware of them). First, the SYSGEN parameter INTSTK (or something like that) must be increased (to two I think). If you don't, your machine will crash. Also, if you are running DECnet, and your TCP/IP will be using its own Ethernet device, you must change all the SYSGEN AUTOCONFIGURE commands to exclude the Ethernet device you want to use for TCP/IP. Otherwise, DECnet will find both/all of them and use them. The AUTOCONFIGURE commands are in SYSTARTUP.COM or STARTUP.COM (I'm not sure) and in SYCONFIG.COM. There may be other things too; I'm not the local expert but I've helped out with installations. Hope this helps. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark H. Granoff Member of the Technical Staff | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | USMAIL: The MITRE Corporation | ARPAnet: mhg @ mitre-bedford.ARPA | | Burlington Rd. | UUCP : linus!mbunix!mhg | | M/S B015 |-----------------------------------| | Bedford, MA 01730 | A T & T: (617) 271 - 7506 | +--------------------------- Disclaimer -----------------------------+ | The views expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily | | reflect those of my employer. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+