Re: ADSL and IRIX

From: UNIX Museum (unixmuseum_at_verizon.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:43:23 GMT

Spidy wrote:
> O.K. Another question.
>
> If all the boxes connected to the modem have a static IP, I can simply
> ftp files across from one to the other?
>
> Sincil Bank wrote:
>
>>>> Nothing to do: IRIX will work either in DHCP mode or static IP,
>>>> whichever you prefer... Believe it or not, it works out of the box
>>>> in a much easier way than a WinXP machine!
>>>>
>>>> Put Samba on your IRIX box too, it'll work very well...
>>
>>
>>
>> I also make use of a 4 port router and a hub.
>> However, I've never had much luck with DHCP in IRIX. It seems 'flakey'
>> to me. I would recommend assigning it a static IP address, with which
>> I've never had any problems.
>>
>> Sinc.
>
>
ftp from Windows to IRIX, definitely. IRIX to Windows, yes if you have
an ftp server on the Windows machines...

A faster way would be to take advantage of Samba to let the Windows
machines "see" your IRIX box as if it were a PC on the network...

Relevant Pages

  • FTP oddity
    ... Consider three machines, one running OS/2 version 4.52, one running ... and one running Windows XP. ... When I use FTP to transfer ... I can also get full bandwidth transfers between the OS/2 and Linux ...
    (comp.os.os2.networking.misc)
  • Re: FTP oddity
    ... and one running Windows XP. ... When I use FTP to transfer ... the Windows firewall turned on between the Windows and Linux machines. ... I can also get full bandwidth transfers between the OS/2 and Linux ...
    (comp.os.os2.networking.misc)
  • Re: [SLE] trying to access a Mandrake Box
    ... I don't know about samba, ... But ftp is very simple to set up, ... machines, but I don't know that it works with windows machines. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: FTP Error: "An Error Occurred opening that folder on the FTP server."
    ... Your issues belong to client end, not IIS FTP server. ... I have an FTP site set up on our Windows ... I can access the FTP site through the Internet ... We have already migrated most of our XP machines back to ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.ftp)
  • Re: ADSL and IRIX
    ... > UNIX Museum wrote: ... >> ftp from Windows to IRIX, ... >> an ftp server on the Windows machines... ...
    (comp.sys.sgi.admin)