Re: Cannot boot without gateway

From: Henk Jonkman (henkj_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: 27 Aug 2004 13:05:08 -0700

"Nils Weller" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:<2o96l6F89g41U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Hi folks,
>
> I just got a B1000 with HP-UX 11i. I configured it to use the FreeBSD
> router in my LAN as default router and added the address of my ISP's
> nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf. The machine can reach internet hosts
> without problems.
>
> But if I attempt to boot the computer while my router isn't running,
> the boot process hangs at the point where it starts the mail server.
> The status display switches between ``busy'' and ``wait'' infinitely
> until I boot the router.
>

As the previous poster suggested you can try without resolv.conf to
see if it's a resolver issue. Another (nasty) issue is the default
gateway. You stated that mail won't start if your router is down.
HP-UX has a default 'dead gateway detection' in which in uses icmp to
see if the default gateway is up and running. If not, it removes the
default route.
Try to set dead gateway detection off in /etc/rc.config.d/ndd.conf by
inserting ip_ire_gw_probe 0 in there, or using ndd on the cli for the
same effect: ndd -set /dev/ip ip_ire_gw_probe 0

hth

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