[net.micro.mac] ATalk/ABPackage experience?

burger@unizh.UUCP (08/06/86)

Experience with ATalk/ABPackage from TML Pascal?
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I tried to set up a communication between a Hyperdrive Mac and a Mac+.
Installing a server node with NBPRegister and opening a listening socket with
ATPOpenSocket worked fine. Its address could be looked up by a user node
(NBPLookUp) and a service request sent at this address (ATPSndRequest) was
detected by the server and a response packet sent back to the user (ATPSndRsp).

Now the problem: the user did recieve this packet in only a few cases and some
		 times waited for a response forever!

I observed the exchange of packets by means of the Peek program. All the packet
information except from the transacion bitmap seemed to be correct. The
transaction bitmap however is not a parameter intended to be set, nor is
possible to set it. I suppose therefore, that the requester is waiting for
further responses, that will never be sent. But why wouldn't it terminate,
although the retry count and the timeout must have been expired?

I hope somebody was luckier and can give me precious hints or even a
running program. Thank you in advance                                    Cyrill
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