netls server on system with 2 interfaces

[Paul Siddals]

I have configured an AIX 4.2.1 system as a netls server and all appears
OK. However
the system has two ethernet interfaces the license server appears to be
working with only
one of the interfaces. Netls clients on network A can recieve licenses
OK but netls clients
on network B can not. Can a netls server be configured to use two
interfaces within a
single system ? if so how.

The llbd appears to respond to the clients on network b correctly but
the clients are told
to find the netls server at the address of the interface attached to
network A !

Thanks in advance for any help

Paul Siddals
Panacea UK

[Tom Kauffman]

This seems to be a hole in the netls spec, or some such. I've run into
the same problem. The fix is simple but a pain to administer - on each
client machine, define a static route between the two server interfaces.
In my case, the server addresses are 192.168.193.200 (the one netls
serves) and
10.8.224.200 (the one most other systems
see)

On the client (10.8.30.11) I have a static route to 192.168.193.200 from
10.8.224.200.

Ugly, but it works.

TomK

[Rick Happe]

I pursued this with IBM back in AIX4.1 and they said that the netls
server configures to the first ip address it encounters. The location
brokers can handle multiple interfaces fine when searching out a server.
But when it comes time to access the server licenses, you better be able
to talk on the configured interface or else you don't get there. Real
friendly, isn't it?