[Info-vax] TCPIP question

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-10-23, DeanW <dean.woodward at gmail.com> wrote:
> Itanium, VMS 8.1, TCPIP 5.2. (From memory; and yeah, that's old and
> unsupported, but that won't change.)
>
> A soon to be former client is moving their VMS machine's connection from
> one ethernet switch to another and they're concerned that TCPIP won't
> handle it well. I don't think it's a big deal; worst case they can
> stop/start TCPIP, but is there a command to force the system to flush the
> ARP table?
>

Why do you need to flush the ARP cache ? Are the existing IP addresses
getting a new MAC address as a result of changing the switch ?

Other concerns are things like a duplex mismatch.

Depending on the hardware in use, that could be a real problem.

Simon.

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