From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 13:22:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA29468 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA29462; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:22:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA20569; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:24:40 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa08203; 6 Jan 97 16:22 EST Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:22:20 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Allen Hyer cc: spork , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xylogics Remote Annex SW and FBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970106143836.0068aa0c@wtrt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Allen Hyer wrote: > At 02:50 PM 1/6/97 -0500, spork wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'm wondering if anyone here is running the server software (erpcd) for > >Xylogics (BayNetworks) Remote Annexes on a FBSD box... I'll be moving our > >dial-in authentication to a FBSD machine soon, and I see that there are > >two choices: either use the pre-compiled BSDI version or take a stab at > >compiling it myself. If anyone has gone either route and has > >horror/success stories, I'd be thrilled to hear about them. > > I am using erpcd Release 10.1A without any problems. I went the compile > myself route, and it went very well. > I did this, but had to alter how erpcd looks up a user id and passwd - the machine running erpcd uses NIS, and a userid/password lookup would appear to hang due to a speed problem of some sort- the erpcd source out of the can looks on a find first, find next sort of basis - since theoretically a system might have more than 1 account with the same login ID..