I need to get my IBM RS running AIX4.3 onto the internet to a particular ftp server, through a NT server running proxy services.
This NT server is directly connected to our internet router vis a secondary NIC on the NT server.
When I add the route to the destination ftp server via gateway ip of the NT server, I get destination unreachable.
Is the fault with AIX, or is it NT. Iread somewhere about SOCKs not being compatible, but not sure if it means SOCKs on NT.
A SOCKS server and a default gateway are two different things, and may or may not be the same machine (most likely not the same). If you want to use a SOCKS or other web-proxy to access the net, setup your client (AIX) machine as you normally would -- i.e. set your default gateway as provided by your network admin. Then setup your web-browser preferences to use the proxy server IP address.
I'm not using a browser on the AIX server, all I need to do is ftp to a server on the internet, this I can do from a PC that goes through the proxy server, but not on my AIX, even after adding routes.