[comp.protocols.appletalk] Chooser and KIP

Ravinder.Chandhok@GNOME.CS.CMU.EDU (08/03/87)

(This message is mostly FYI)

Well, I finally figured out why Chooser takes so long to start up with a KIP
gateway running.  It is because the current KIP code responds only to DDP
Zip Queries, not to the ATP Get[myzone,zonelist].  Any ATP packets to the
ZIS socket (6) in the KIP gateway are currently identified and dropped.
Thus, Chooser asks a few times for the name of the current zone, then when
that fails it tries GetZoneList a couple of times.  After that (and it seems
like a long time to the user) Chooser gives up.

Has anyone else written the ZIP stub needed to return the zone name from the
KIP config info ?  (I know Bill Croft may be doing this now.)

Also, I believe this is why AppleShare is not happy about writing an
"AppleShare Prep" file when running on a net with a KIP gateway.

Rob

cck@CUNIXC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Charlie C. Kim) (08/03/87)

This problem is documented and the patches for kip0287 are included
the CAP distribution 4 in cap/afp/kfps287-rtmp.c.diffs.  Chooser is
unbearable otherwise :-).

I believe that the gw.srec in sumex.stanford.edu::ps:<info-mac>at-gw.srec
has this patch installed.

Charlie C. Kim
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