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IMPORTANT: Whenever making a change to a configuration file, always make a copy of the original version of the file that was working before you began reconfiguration for the SUCCESS LAN.
In the following suggestions and hints, assume that your assigned fully-qualified hostname for your machine on the Salina SUCCESS LAN is "myhost.success.espo.nasa.gov", and your assigned IP address is 198.120.56.25. Consult the table of assigned hostnames and IP addresses to find your actual unique values for these two items and use them. The other configuration parameters for the SUCCESS LAN are shared by all hosts. They are:
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast IP address: 198.120.56.255
Gateway IP address: 198.120.56.1
DNS Nameserver hosts:
cloud4.success.espo.nasa.gov 198.120.56.130
cloud1.arc.nasa.gov 128.102.154.176
Where to get NCSA Telnet for PCs
Anonymous ftp site: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu Directory: /Telnet/DOS/
Where to get packet drivers for various supported ethernet adapters
WWW site at URL: http:/www.cyways.com/newindex.html
Define your assigned SUCCESS LAN hostname in the config.tel file. The sample hostname of myhost is used here as an example, but you should use your assigned name.
myname=myhost.success.espo.nasa.gov
Define your assigned SUCCESS LAN IP address in the config.tel file. The sample IP address is used here as an example, but you should use your assigned IP address.
myip=198.120.56.25
Define netmask, broadcast address, SUCCESS LAN domain name, gateway (our router), and nameservers in the config.tel file.
netmask=255.255.255.0 broadcast=198.120.56.255 domain="success.espo.nasa.gov" name=success-gw; hostip=198.120.56.1; gateway=1; name=cloud4; host=cloud4.success.espo.nasa.gov; hostip=198.120.56.130; nameserver=1; name=cloud1; host=cloud1.arc.nasa.gov; hostip=128.102.154.176; nameserver=2; name=mxnsi; host=mx.nsi.nasa.gov; hostip=128.102.18.31; nameserver=3;
For security, you should probably enable password protection, especially if you have enabled ftp with the "ftp=yes" option in the config.tel file. To enable password protection, include the option
passfile="x"in config.tel, with x being the full path to your password file. Password files can be created with the program telpass.exe, which is included with the NCSA distribution.
It should be noted that without password protection, anyone on the network can usually ftp to your PC while you are running NCSA Telnet and transfer files to or from your machine.
Static name to IP address table for SUCCESS LAN hosts
In case of nameserver failure, you should probably define your frequently contacted hosts' name vs IP address info in your config.tel file, plus the SUCCESS LAN hosts. A list of config.tel entries for the SUCCESS LAN hosts is under a link off the SUCCESS web pages titled "computer network".
webmaster@cloud1.arc.nasa.gov