mcgowan@ur-tut (Craig McGowan) (03/28/88)
Our Kinetics box reboots itself at least once a week. When it does, it usually comes back with a different appletalk address (our atalk.local has it set at 220). When it doesn't have the right appletalk number, CAP services disappear. My first instinct is to think that CAP should be able to find AppleTalk gateways dynamically (or at least by querying their IP address). Is there something I can do to work around this problem? -- Craig McGowan University of Rochester
cck@cunixc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim) (03/29/88)
The Kinetics box has at least two AppleTalk addresses (three if EtherTalk is configured in). The first is on the LocalTalk interface. This address should not be used because part of it (the node number) is dynamic. The second, is on the UDP/EtherNet interface. This is a static address and is the one that should be used in your atalk.local. [The node is always the last byte of the IP address on UDP based AppleTalk addresses]. Charlie C. Kim User Services Columbia University
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (03/29/88)
mcgowan@cc.rochester.edu writes: > Our Kinetics box reboots itself at least once a week. Really? That's amazing. We've had a kbox for about 9 months now. Except for a few horrible weeks in the beginning when we had a lemon power supply, I can't remember a single time it has crashed (well, we had to reboot it after a power failure once, but that hardly counts). I suspect your box has the "bad power supply filter capacitor" problem which has apparantly been popping up on some kboxes. There was a recall letter that went out a few months ago. Call Kinetics; they will either fix it at their factory for free or send you the parts and instructions to do it yourself if you prefer (from what I saw of the procedure, it's a 15-minute job for somebody who knows how to solder). -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
mcgowan@ur-tut (Craig McGowan) (03/30/88)
Thanks to Charlie and Roy for responding. Charlie's remarks prompted me to re-examine our atalk.local file. The problem was that we had the AppleTalk side of the kinetics box configured as the gateway address, rather than the ethernet side. Everything works fine in this configuration until the K-box reboots and chooses a number that is different than what is in atalk.local file. -- Craig McGowan (mcgowan@cc.rochester.edu)