Is this something that I need to check with our network team? We currently have 4 different subnets in our AIX lpars and they can talk to each other normally.
In principle: yes. In practice the overwhelming majority of switches/routers do this (at least this is my experience) per default. I just wanted to give the rationale behind having to state the default gateway for each NIM network.
Notice that "default gateway" here means the gateway used to access the client network: suppose you have a NIM-server with IP A out of network NetA and a client with the IP B out of network NetB. The NIM network you have to create will be NetB and its "default gateway" will be the router IP in NetB, not some interface on the NIM server. For example (suppose x.1 is always the router port for network x):
The gateway is NOT 10.1.1.1, which would be the standard gateway for the NIM server.
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Originally Posted by kaelu26
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All,
I'm testing NIM on a 7026-m80 machine.
But everytime i want to setup the master, i get this error message...
Anyone who knows how to solve this issue? google doesn't seem to know much about it
# nim_master_setup
############################## NIM master setup... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I believe my NIM master is fine. lsnim and cat /etc/niminfo gives me the right output. While doing "lsnim" on a client machine, I get ksh:lsnim:"not found".
Please someone be nice enough to explain what are the steps to verify the master and client connectivity to do all the NIM... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone
Im trying to backup a nim client from nim master but I got this message
COMMAND STATUS
Command: failed stdout: yes stderr: no
Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below.
0042-001 nim:... (2 Replies)
Guys, I need your help
I got a requirement from a cUstomer asking for a specific design
He wants to use the NIM Master as one single mgmt server and access the nodes maintained by it there by the accounting is in one single server for all the nodes
Note:- Direct login to the nodes will... (3 Replies)
Hi.
I change my client's IP and hostname but I forgot to change anything on the master. How can I redefine or modify my client's resource from my master, or with using smit niminit from my client ?
Tks (2 Replies)
Iam attempting to add a client to NIM however the new client has a different subnet than master 10... & 193... , I've established from redbooks that it should be possible but can't find anything that states how?
Does anyone use nim in this way? (5 Replies)
hi Admins,
How can I check the NIM master hostname/IP name from NIM client ? I don't see any option that I can try with nimclient command.
Let me know..
Thanks, (5 Replies)
Hello, I have an AIX6.1 machine which is a nim client to my nim master which is also AIX6.1 machine. I had some problem to perform an installation on my client using smit nim . i removed /etc/niminfo file in order to do the initialization again but when i run the command niminit -a name=client... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: omonoiatis9
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
route
ROUTE(8) System Manager's Manual ROUTE(8)NAME
route - manually manipulate the routing tables
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/route [ -f ] [ -n ] [ command args ]
DESCRIPTION
Route is a program used to manually manipulate the network routing tables. It normally is not needed, as the system routing table manage-
ment daemon, routed(8), should tend to this task.
Route accepts two commands: add, to add a route, and delete, to delete a route.
All commands have the following syntax:
/sbin/route command [ net | host ] destination gateway [ metric ]
where destination is the destination host or network, gateway is the next-hop gateway to which packets should be addressed, and metric is a
count indicating the number of hops to the destination. The metric is required for add commands; it must be zero if the destination is on
a directly-attached network, and nonzero if the route utilizes one or more gateways. If adding a route with metric 0, the gateway given is
the address of this host on the common network, indicating the interface to be used for transmission. Routes to a particular host are dis-
tinguished from those to a network by interpreting the Internet address associated with destination. The optional keywords net and host
force the destination to be interpreted as a network or a host, respectively. Otherwise, if the destination has a ``local address part''
of INADDR_ANY, or if the destination is the symbolic name of a network, then the route is assumed to be to a network; otherwise, it is pre-
sumed to be a route to a host. If the route is to a destination connected via a gateway, the metric should be greater than 0. All sym-
bolic names specified for a destination or gateway are looked up first as a host name using gethostbyname(3N). If this lookup fails, get-
netbyname(3N) is then used to interpret the name as that of a network.
Route uses a raw socket and the SIOCADDRT and SIOCDELRT ioctl's to do its work. As such, only the super-user may modify the routing
tables.
If the -f option is specified, route will ``flush'' the routing tables of all gateway entries. If this is used in conjunction with one of
the commands described above, the tables are flushed prior to the command's application.
The -n option prevents attempts to print host and network names symbolically when reporting actions.
DIAGNOSTICS
``add [ host | network ] %s: gateway %s flags %x''
The specified route is being added to the tables. The values printed are from the routing table entry supplied in the ioctl call. If the
gateway address used was not the primary address of the gateway (the first one returned by gethostbyname), the gateway address is printed
numerically as well as symbolically.
``delete [ host | network ] %s: gateway %s flags %x''
As above, but when deleting an entry.
``%s %s done''
When the -f flag is specified, each routing table entry deleted is indicated with a message of this form.
``Network is unreachable''
An attempt to add a route failed because the gateway listed was not on a directly-connected network. The next-hop gateway must be given.
``not in table''
A delete operation was attempted for an entry which wasn't present in the tables.
``routing table overflow''
An add operation was attempted, but the system was low on resources and was unable to allocate memory to create the new entry.
SEE ALSO intro(4N), routed(8), XNSrouted(8)4.2 Berkeley Distribution November 16, 1996 ROUTE(8)