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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!lkaplan From: lkaplan@us.oracle.com (Lewis Kaplan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips,comp.unix.questions,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Can't ping my machine Date: 26 Oct 1995 00:17:19 GMT Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <46mk2f$1sh@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lkaplan-sun.us.oracle.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mips:4412 comp.unix.questions:71381 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:39812 comp.unix.sys5.r3:2760 comp.unix.bsd:16736 I have an an old MIPS 3240 running RISC/OS' blend of BSD and SYS5r3. Just recently my lithium battery went dead and I lost NVRAM information. I had been running an NCD X terminal off of this server on my little coax ethernet. After losing the battery I could still boot from the server I just had to reset the bootserver information in the NVRAM. I have just gotten connected to the internet (I have my own subnet addresses). Since applying my new internet addresses I have been unable to access the MIPS box via its external address even from the MIPS box itself(I can ping myself using the localhost loopback address). From the MIPS box I can ping the NCD and I can ping the dec router to which I am connected. Neither from the MIPS box nor from the NCD can I ping anyone beyond the router. However addresses outside the router have been able to ping the NCD and the router. When I run arp on the MIPS box it shows that the ethernet address is unknown. Using arp -s I reset the ethernet adress but this does not help the above situation. I have also tried updating the netaddr in the NVRAM to the proper internet address but this also does not seem to help. Yes I do intend to replace the lithium battery but I still need to reload the NVRAM values which have been lost. Any ideas/suggestions? You can email me at lkaplan@us.oracle.com. Thanks, Lewis