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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: MacTCP/K* across zones?
Message-ID: <766@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 18 Aug 89 19:40:22 GMT
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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Picture this configuration:

We are trying to run one Fastpath 4, K-Star 7.0, as our main gateway.
It translates between LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and UDP-Talk just fine.
(It uses the atalkatab data from one of the Unix hosts.)

Our old Fastpath-2s are running ETalk-gw.srec to translate between LocalTalk
and EtherTalk, obviously without consulting any atalkad.
This works fine, everything works, EXCEPT:
Suppose I am on LocalTalk behind the FP-4 and use MacTCP. It finds the
gateway. (This is very astonishing because there isn't any IPGATEWAY to be
found in MacTCP. I had to patch K-Star 7.0 to register itself as IPGATEWAY
instead of IPADDRESS because otherwise our other stuff had stopped working.)

Suppose instead that I am on LocalTalk behind the old FP-2. InterPoll sees the
FP-4.  However, regardless of which zone I select in MacTCP's Control
SubPanel, Telnet (2.3 MacTCP) doesn't start up properly (instead it just
terminates silently).
And please don't tell me about setting Option 7 in the FP-4; it _is_ set.