jar@jessica.stanford.edu (Janine Roeth) (08/04/88)
(Please reply to jar@jessica.stanford.edu) We are trying to install TOPS/Sun 2.0 and are running into problems. Our configuration is a Sun 3/75 runnin SunOS 3.5, a FastPath (yes with 3.0 PROMS) running 6/88 KIP code and configured for EtherTalk and AppleTalk encapsulation.. On the other side of that FastPath is a mac and pc running TOPS on AppleTalk. We installed as far as the kernel mods and rebooting, but the daemons all die and the Sun doesn't know any net or bridge number, let alone a node value (running atinfo yields "my net=0, node=1, bridge=0"). What's the specific communication that goes on between the Sun and the FastPath to get these values assigned?? I'm using TOPS' version of etherfind, called topspeek and seeing packets coming from the FastPath, but they are not AppleTalk packets (according to what topspeek is supposed to report.) I can't get any reasonable information from the documentation or TOPS so far and it's very frustrating. In case it matters, we have a total of 4 FastPaths on our IP subnet. Two are running 9/87 KIP and two are running 6/88 KIP. They are defined in the same zone although they boot off of different atalkad servers. The EtherTalk is definitely working through the FastPath, since we have Macs directly on the Ethernet working fine. Thanks to any bit of information I can get on this..... A last minute flash that came in while I was writing this - TOPS Technical Support has told me that I can't use KIP because it "does not work"...I know that some of you have run TOPS with KIP 6/88, so please let me know how you did it!! Janine Roeth Stanford University jar@jessica.stanford.edu
jar@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (08/04/88)
(Please respond directly to jar@jessica.stanford.edu if you can help me out) We are trying to install TOPS/Sun and are running into problems. Our configuration is a Sun 3/75 runnin SunOS 3.5, a FastPath (yes with 3.0 PROMS) running 6/88 KIP code and configured for EtherTalk. On the other side of that Kbox is a mac and pc running TOPS. We installed as far as the kernel mods and rebooting, but the daemons all die and the Sun doesn't know any net or bridge number, let alone a node value (running atinfo yields "my net=0, node=1, bridge=0"). What's the specific communication that goes on between the Sun and the Kbox to get these values assigned?? I can't get any reasonable information from the documentation or TOPS so far and it's very frustrating. In case it matters, we have a total of 4 kboxes on our IP subnet. Two are running 9/87 KIP and two are running 6/88 KIP. They are defined in the same zone although they boot off of different atalkad servers. Thanks to any bit of information I can get on this..... A last minute flash that came in while I was writing this - TOPS Technical Support has told me that I can't use KIP because it "does not work"...I know that some of you have run TOPS with KIP 6/88, so please let me know how you did it!! Janine Roeth Stanford University jar@jessica.stanford.edu