[comp.sys.apollo] Looking for common hardware experience

krowitz@mit-richter.UUCP (David Krowitz) (01/16/88)

Hmmm ... I can't help you with the DN3000-as-a-gateway
question, but we are running SR9.7 on our ringhet-based
nodes with a DN660 acting as the gateway to our
departmental ethernet. We haven't seen any problems
peculiar to SR9.7 (as opposed to SR9.5.1). 
The DN3000 self tests recognize ringnet controllers 0 and 1,
and ethernet controllers 0 and 1, and the older two
board ringnet controller. If you don't have the correct
ringnet controller in your configuration file, the node
will run, but it will crash every couple of hours. I found
this out the hard way when I accidently told the CONFIG
program that one of our older DN3000's had the newer
single board ringnet controller. If you think you might
have this problem, try running DEX and give it the AUTO
command to size the system. It will tell you if their
is a descrepency between the existing hardware and
the configuration file.


 -- David Krowitz

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