Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!rata.vuw.ac.nz!newbery From: newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.mac.appletalk Subject: Tops gets err -42 Keywords: TOPS, cisco Message-ID: <1989Nov29.231916.28165@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 29 Nov 89 23:19:16 GMT Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Reply-To: newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 19 We (or rather, one of our clients) has Tops version 2.1 running on a PC, talking EtherTalk thru a 3C503. On the same Ethernet is a cisco router running version 7.1 and configured as the AppleTalk seed for that network. This same router also talks EtherTalk to a Webster MultiGate on another Ethernet. The cisco and the MG get on fine: each seems to be doing the right thing. The TOPS machine however insists it is on network 0 and produces "Unknown error -42" every time we do a TOPS ZONE command. TOPS statistics show it is seeing (good) packets from the cisco (the only other EtherTalk device on the E-net), the cisco sees ATalk packets from TOPS, but, nothing works. The TOPS machine is invisible to the rest of the network. I'm not really up on the internals of AppleTalk so I don't know who might be at fault here, or what to do about it. Any ideas please? -- Michael Newbery (...!uunet!vuwcomp!newbery if you must) Abandon hope all ye who enter CP.