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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Solved: problems using XDM Date: 23 Apr 1997 21:47:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5jm01c$4bf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <2444c5bb.u9t27e.bf3f6@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39629 jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) wrote: > I am not sure just WHY this happens, but to get XDM to work, I disabled the > Ethernet interface, unassigned its IP address, added an IP alias of this > second address to my SLIP interface, and voila! The Xserver and/or xdm is broken when it comes to multi-homed hosts. Nothing surprising, there used to be more broken software in this respect (talk and NFS come to mind), but most has been fixed already. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)