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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: UDPTalk as a backbone
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Date: 6 Sep 89 03:17:27 GMT
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Reply-To: leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
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Milo S. Medin writes:
>                                                       Now if we could only get
> the silly things to boot via TFTP or the like, we wouldn't need access to
> Macs on the Localtalk segment at all!

Actually, my vote goes for bootp; but anything is better than having to
visit the localtalk segment (well, anything but ethertalk).

>                                      The LBL KIP I use gives me stats on
> error rates the K-box is seeing on the Localtalk and Ethernet sides.  That's
> not just gravy, we have found serious problems on localtalk nets thanks to that
> feature.  How do you know how bad off you are if the Kbox won't tell you
> what it's seeing?

Yeah, it's hard to imagine living without the same per interface
statistics a typical BSD Unix system (or turnkey router) gives you. And
I've actually had k-boxes point out serious ethernet problems.

		Craig