Problem with new 100BT card

[Dan Rosen]

247 is the firewall. I think since most of the connections are IP number based (not name based), it would make sense that external connections are going directly to the firewall, instead of hitting the gateway.

[Dan Rosen]

AH-HAH!

In reading other threads, I saw something about using the defaults in the nsswitch. My nsswitch .conf (original) only had a line for hosts.

When I looked in SAM, there were four other options, all defaulting to NIS first, then files second.

So, I switched that around, since we don't have NIS, and viola! Login - good! ping - good! checking /etc/passwd - well, two out of three isn't bad.

OK, so defaulting to NIS was causing a slowdown. The final piece before the rabbit shows up - on the HPUX 11.0 box in SAM, nsswitch.conf has 11 options, and passwd is one of them. On 10.20, there are only 5 and I don't see a way to add new ones. So, is there a setting that tells the system where to find the correct passwd file? Or, in 10.20, is it buried in one of the other files (services, protocols, etc).

Thanks

[Dan Rosen]

OK, rabbit is coming out of the hat.

For some unknown reason, NIS client was turned on, when we don't use it, and there is no server. I probably could have fixed all other services by turning that off first, but when all of the other protocols were fixed by updating the defaults, I thought I would give it a try.

I must say that the forums for HP are unlike any other support organization I have seen ANYWHERE. There is an amazing amount of community and assistance that goes on. My sincerest thanks to everyone who took the time to read, let alone respond to the thread.

[Dan Rosen]

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