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- From: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A Zook 283-4206)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Problem with NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 hardware=appletalk option
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.181155.323@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 25 Aug 1992 18:11:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.173229.15262@ntg.com>
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- Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
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- In article <1992Aug21.173229.15262@ntg.com>, dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) writes:
-
- |> I've been unable to get the "hardware=appletalk" configuration option of
- |> NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 to work in our environment. HELP!
- |>
- |> We run Macs on both LocalTalk and Ethernet, and have a Fastpath-4
- |> running K-Star 9.1 as a bridge between them.
- |>
- |> Macs connected to the Ethernet (Asante NuBus cards) work just fine, with
- |> either "hardware=ether" or "hardware=mactcp", and a fixed (manually-
- |> assigned) IP address.
- |>
- |> Macs connected to LocalTalk work fine with "hardware=mactcp", with
- |> MacTCP configured for server-based address assignment. The K-box hands
- |> out an address from its dynamic range, and the connections work fine.
- |> The dynamically-assigned IP address shows up in the "arp -a" report as
- |> being mapped to the K-box EtherNet address.
- |>
- |> However, they do not work correctly with "hardware=appletalk", and
- |> either server-based or fixed IP address assignment. TELNET seems to
- |> acquire an IP address from the K-box, but its attempts to send packets
- |> to the Unix hosts through the K-box drop into a black hole. I don't
- |> ever observe the K-box "LocalTalk activity" light flash. The
- |> dynamically-assigned IP address doesn't show up in the "arp -a" report,
- |> unless I do something on the Sun such as ping the address... in which
- |> case, the address appears in arp -a (the K-box is responding to the arp
- |> packet) but the pings receive no response.
- |>
- |> All I can conclude, is that the NCSA/BYU 2.5 IP-in-DDP driver isn't
- |> transmitting the packets to the gateway properly. I haven't been able
- |> to figure out why not.
- |>
-
- I have a similar problem with NCSA/BYU 2.4.19. When running on a mac
- using localtalk without the MacTCP driver, I have problems connecting
- to unix platforms (Suns). I can connect to a CISCO router with no problem.
- I use a FastPath 4.1 with K-Star 9.1. Both fixed IP address and Dynamic
- IP address have the same problem. The symptom is that the session starts.
- Asks for my account and password, then after 1 or 2 lines of the motd the
- session hangs.
-
- Any Ideas?
-
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- Craig Zook - zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
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