cck%cucca@COLUMBIA.EDU.UUCP (07/11/86)
It hit me tonight that there's problems in the way the abnet code picks up the ddp networks. Problems at mit proved it too. The problem lies in the fact that the code really makes three major assumptions. First, that you're on a class b network. Second, that you don't have anything defined for the KFPS Ipmap table. Third, that you are running the KFPS with subnet shift of 8 and a subnet mask of 0xFF. I don't have a general patch at this point. (Basically, just too tired to think about it and don't feel like hacking out the code). I will note that the code that causes this problem is fairly localized - if you look at abInit and see the way it picks out abnet and absrcaddr.net, then you should be able to patch it quickly for some particular arrangement by setting the abnet address to the same thing the KFPS software would. To let you know what else has been happening, I've found a whole bunch of small bugs which don't really affect things too much (for the applications sent out). In addition, been working on the KFPS gateway code to send NBP LkUp's to both networks when it gets a BrRq. This seems to work okay. Stubs for RTMP handling are in - but no real code. Since NBP LkUp's are going to the ethernet, can watch and respond - this is step 1 in having a unix server (you can by-pass, but....) - many many problems with new code right now though, won't be ready for a while. Still no documenation. Charlie C. Kim User Services Columbia University