lrm@b.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (GTA Systems) (02/07/89)
We have been having bad behavior from our appletalk ethernet bridge facilities from our K-box 2 running KIP. I have been disconnected from servers and have not been able to find zones. I have just tried to rebooting and sending routing info to them but this did not solve the problem. I found that if I powerdown the box that this information will return. My question is, is this happened to other users of these products? If so, how often must they be powered down? Is this a sign of something worse? Larry Metzger GTA, Systems WVU P.S. Could this be my printing problem that I posted before?
schmidt@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Schmidt) (02/08/89)
Since the Fastpath-2 + KIP is an extremely common combination, I'd suspect hardware. We have 4 Fastpath-2's. Some have been running KIP 1/88 continuously for almost a year. When I originally installed our Phonenet, I erroneously put terminating resistors in all the boxes on the bus. (They only belong at the ends.) The effect was that some macs zone lists mysteriously appeared and disappeared. Incidentally, the marginal macs seemed to vary more by individual sensitivity to the problem, and less by position on the net. Maybe this is happening to you. Terminating our net properly fixed this problem. This is just a guess, but if your problem fixes itself when you turn the kbox off, maybe you have a heat problem. (As a non-truster of radiant cooling, I run my Fastpath-1's with their skins off in a machine room. I think this might also discourage theft...) --Christopher