edc@ka.novell.com (Eric Christensen) (09/21/90)
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH! Now that I've got that out of my system.... I've just installed AUX 2.0 on my IIfx and have everything running fine except for the AppleTalk. I've gone through the system with a fine tooth comb and cant seem to find what's wrong. I have verified that the appletalkrc is correct, my EtherNet board (standard Apple NB) is working (at least TCP/IP is working), and the kernel is configured for appletalk. It all works fine in MacOS, it just doesn't find any of my zones in AUX. Now, the ethernet I'm connected to is still running Phase 1, and I don't have a Fastpath around that I can configure as a transition bridge. This makes me suspect that AUX 2.0 only supports Phase 2. Does this make sense? If so, can it support phase 1? And what's the trick? Just to reinforce my theory, I noticed that appletalk -s shows more packets received than transmitted, so it MUST be seeing traffic from one of my Phase II networks or something. edc_mac.root 1 # appletalk -s AppleTalk interface: EtherTalk (ae0) Network Number .................. 65314 (0xff22) Node ID ......................... 35 (0x23) Bridge number ................... 0 (0x0) Bridge net ...................... 0 (0x0) Packets Transmitted ............. 65 Bytes Transmitted ............... 2111 Best Router Cache used (pkts) ... 0 Packets Received ................ 188 Bytes Received .................. 5419 Packets for unregistered socket . 0 Packets for out of range socket . 0 Length errors ................... 0 Checksum errors ................. 0 Packets dropped (no buffers) .... 0 Also, just a few minutes ago I got about 20 messages like the following on my console: **************************************************************************** **** An AppleTalk Router just came up. **** **** This Node's address is in startup range. **** **** Shutdown and Restart AppleTalk to use full AppleTalk functionality **** **************************************************************************** of course restarting appletalk didn't do sh*t. Still the same symptoms. I did just notice that the recieved packet count increases by 2 every time I don an appletalk -s, so that might not mean anything. Anyone run up against this? Any bright ideas (don't suggest suicide, I've already contemplated it! :-) Or should I just write this off to "Slahing my wrists with the cutting edge of technology"? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!! +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Eric Christensen - Sr. System Administrator - Novell Inc., Info Services| |Email: edc@NOVELL.COM {ames | apple | mtxinu | leadsv }!excelan!edc | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax) (09/23/90)
In article <1922@excelan.COM> edc@novell.com (Eric Christensen) writes: >Now, the ethernet I'm connected to is still running Phase 1, and I A/UX 2.0 only supports Phase II EtherTalk! If you don't have a FastPath (being at excelan you _should_ be able to get one...) or another Mac running MacOS and the AppleTalk Router software from Apple, or some other transition software or finally upgrade your network to Phase II. The performance gain is worth the upgrade. -- Ron Flax ron@afsg.apple.com Apple Federal Systems Group