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Re: [nls-restore] emulator issues

To: nls-restore <nls-restore@chm.cim3.net>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@cim3.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:28:58 -0700
Message-id: <42BC50EA.2090400@cim3.com>
ERRATA:    (01)

  "Memory: 8GB PC3200 400MHz ECC DDR SDRAM RDIMM"
  (was: "Memory: 8GB ECC SDRAM"
   updated below  =ppy)
--    (02)

Peter Yim wrote Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:20:53 -0700:
> Mine is inline too.  =ppy
> -- 
> 
> Jonathan Cheyer wrote Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:41:49 -0700:
> 
>> Ken, thanks for replying.
>>
>> My own comments are also inline.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> Ken Harrenstien wrote Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:14:24 EDT:
>>
>>> OK, I'm back and catching up...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> At 03:49 PM 6/17/2005, Raylene Pak wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan,
>>>>> 1.  While the emulator can share an IP address with the other 
>>>>> applications that run on the newell.cim3.com machine, the emulated 
>>>>> DEC20/Augment host requires its own IP address.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I assume that all Peter has to do is allocate a additional IP 
>>>> address, and configure the virtual interface to allow two IP 
>>>> addresses for the same MAC.  Presumably, there's no need to have 
>>>> second network card.  It that correct?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Only if you don't care about connecting to the virtual 20 from the
>>> same machine it's running on.  Linux, AFAIK, has never correctly
>>> supported tapping into the outbound packet stream.  So, if you want to
>>> telnet from the native system into the emulated DEC20, you either have
>>> to first telnet out to some other place, and then back into the
>>> DEC20... or have a second ethernet port dedicated to the DEC20.  In
>>> practice, the second NIC is the simplest/cheapest workaround and makes
>>> it easier to debug problems.
>>>
>>> Many dual-processor boards have dual NICs on them already.  You might
>>> check to see if this one does.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jonathan: Yes, I spoke with Peter about this already, and he is going 
>> to place another NIC card into the machine to be available as a second 
>> external IP. (The existing dual NIC is already used up for one 
>> external and one internal IP number.) This will be available by 
>> Monday, and then I'll post the second IP number to this list so that 
>> Raylene has the information.
>>
>>
>>> [klh] That sounds good, although at 1.13GHz your response is not 
>>> going to be quite as spiffy as that of the current BI system :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> [jc] If we notice any slowdown of any kind, I'm sure Peter can make  
>> available for us a faster machine, right Peter? ;-)
> 
> 
> [ppy] Jonathan and I had actually decided to put this onto a different 
> box ... (you're going to like this) ...
> 
> Instead of newell.cim3.com (ref: 
> http://chm.cim3.net/forum//nls-restore/2005-06/msg00022.html#nid02), 
> we'll now be using:
> 
> Hostname: pascal.cim3.com
>    (we'll give this the alias nls01.cim3.com & nls01.cim3.net)
> Ext IP address: 64.62.192.13 & 64.62.192.14 (.14 for nls01 use)
> Hardware: IBM e326 Dual Opteron 250 2 x 2.4GHz
>            - 1 MB cache processor SMP
> Memory: 8GB PC3200 400MHz ECC DDR SDRAM RDIMM
> OS: GNU/Linux - Fedora Core 4 distribution (FC4-x86_64)
> Kernel: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
> 
> I'll let you guys know when the box is at the cim3-fmt1 colo facility. 
> We'll be getting 100Mbps full burstable bandwidth into a multi OC-48 
> self-healing fiber ring backbone.
> 
>>> We'll probably need to recompile the emulator; as long as you included
>>> GCC (C compiler) during the FC3 install, things should be fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, the box has the standard gcc, make, and the other usual developer 
>> tools loaded so it shouldn't be a problem.
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