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- NCSA Telnet Digest Friday, 15 April 1988 Volume 2 : Issue 6
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- Mac SE Connection Problems
- Telnet 2.1e and Bridge CS/100
- NCSA Telnet 2.1e and KIP 1/88
- NCSA Telnet News
- NCSA Telnet Digest Archives available
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- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 88 14:18:09 CST
- From: Christopher Corke <CC06067@UAFSYSB>
-
- I am currently running Telnet 2.1e on a Mac SE with many problems.
- For the past serveral days our machine will not talk to the network.
- This is the third network adapter we have had in the machine, and
- we are still having problems. We have a MAC II and a PC/AT hooked
- up to the network that work fine.
-
- Everytime I power up the MAC SE and start the telnet software, everything
- appears to be fine. But, when I try to OPEN a connection, I get a message
- that the local gateway is not responding.
-
- Any ideas or comments would help !!!!!
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- University of Arkansas
- <CC06067@UAFSYSB> (Christopher C. Corke) 220 A.D.S.B.
- System Programmer I 155 Razorback Road
- Universtiy of Arkansas (Postmaster) Fayetteville, AR. 72701
- Department of Computing Services (501) 575-2905
- Acknowledge-To: <CC06067@UAFSYSB>
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- Date: 6 Apr 88 12:19 +0200
- From: "Mike Gerard CERN-DD (JMG AT CERNVAX)" <mcvax!priam.CERN!jmg@uunet.UU.NET>
- Subject: telnet 2.1e problem
-
- I have a MacPlus with the Kinetics SCSI interface. Running 2.1e I go via
- a Bridge CS/100 into our IBM VM system via an IBM 7171. Having logged in
- I leave the MAc untouched for some time. It is then blocked: what I type
- in causes some packet to go off, but no response from the CS/100. It is
- possible that the CS/100 has timed out. However, when I disconnect from
- the Mac side, then try to reconnect to the same or any other host the
- attempt fails: I have to quit telnet completely then restart it, after which
- everything is OK.
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- Subject: Telnet 2.1 with 1/88 KIP
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 88 00:22:29 EST
- From: tim wicinski <wicinski%nrl-css.arpa@nrl-css.arpa>
-
- I have noticed strangeness with Telnet 2.1 and 2.1e with rev 01/88 of
- the KIP gateway code. I configure the box to understand about
- Ethertalk as described in notes, etc... First, 2.1e works great, it
- will find the Kbox sitting on the Ethernet, and actually accept
- 'dynamic addressing' and pull an address from the boxes list. However,
- it seems to die after that, coming up with "hosts or gateway not
- responding" message. If i delete the Ethertalk configuration from the
- gateway, 2.1 and 2.1e will work fine.
-
- has anyone else had this problem with 2.1e and 1/88 KIP ? seems that
- the Kbox is stealing packets from the Ethertalk card, and the Kbox is
- sending the packets down the localtalk and is generally losing
- everything. it seems to come down to an ARP problem, both the Kbox and
- the Ethertalk card are claiming the same address.
-
- tim wicinski
-
- [ Ed Note -
- [ This note brings up a good point for those of you using the 2.1e
- [ version on networks with EtherTalk KIP. Because of the way that
- [ KIP administers and acts as all of the IP numbers which it has dominion
- [ over, you CAN NOT use a KIP server to distribute dynamic IP numbers for
- [ EtherTalk. Further, the IP numbers of any EtherTalk machine must NOT
- [ be in a range that is controlled by a Kinetics box running any kind of
- [ software.
- [ In future versions, we will be providing RARP which allows for a remote
- [ table lookup of IP numbers.
- [ - Gaige ]
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-
- Date: Thu, 14 APR 1988 13:00
- From: timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim Krauskopf, NCSA)
- Subject: Telnet news
-
- This note brings some of you up to date and answers some old
- questions from past postings.
-
- There will be an open beta test, announced to this list, within
- one month. We want 2.2 to be even more reliable than 2.1 which
- has an outstanding record. New in 2.2, scheduled for this summer:
- - default domains
- - RARP support for dynamic IP assignment on ethernet
- - font, and size control
- - color on Mac II
- - Tektronix bug fixes
- - combined hardware support for Mac - only one application for Macs
- - combined hardware support for PC - only one application for PCs
- - planned PC drivers:
- - 3COM 3C501 (current)
- - UB PC-NIC (current)
- - MICOM NI5210 (current)
- - Western Digital WD8003
- - UB NICps/2
- - MICOM NI9210 (if they ever send me one)
- - 3COM 3C523 (if everything works out)
- - checks for disk full errors
- - more little things
-
- Answers to a couple of earlier questions -
-
- The current 3C501 driver only supports interrupt 3 and interrupt 5.
- It is also hard-coded to I/O addresses at 300 (hex). Because it
- is so hard to write reliable drivers for the 3C501 board, there
- will be no changes to this driver. There is a possibility of
- finding patch locations which can be used to change from 300 to
- some other I/O address. Does anyone already know them?
-
- We have no plans for supporting NCSA Telnet for LocalTalk on PCs.
- We would like to distribute such code if a user contributes it.
-
- Tim Krauskopf timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications 14013@ncsavmsa (BITNET)
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- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 88 10:28:45 CDT
- From: gaige@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gaige Paulsen)
- Subject: Archives on-line
-
-
- By popular demand, I have placed all of the previous NCSA Telnet digests
- on our FTP server. To obtain old copies of the NCSA Telnet Digest,
- anonymous FTP to:
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- or
- 128.174.20.50
-
- The files are located in NCSA_Telnet/Digests and are named with the volume
- number first and then the issue number (thus, V1.04 is Volume 1, Issue 4).
-
-
- Gaige B. Paulsen
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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-