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From: fortinp@bcara13.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin 1573589)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Tops gets err -42
Summary: cisco AppleTalk 7.1
Keywords: TOPS, cisco
Message-ID: <249@bnrgate.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 00:50:54 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.231916.28165@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <1989Nov29.231916.28165@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes:
> 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.
> 
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> Michael Newbery<newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz> (...!uunet!vuwcomp!newbery if you must)
> Abandon hope all ye who enter CP.

Micheal,

Most of the cisco AppleTalk software was debugged here at BNR (Ottawa, Canada).  
What you don't mention is the edit level of your cisco s/w; you should have 
release 7.1(17).  All other releases prior to this version had various problems
in handling AppleTalk.  In some of the releases between 7.1(10) and 7.1(17)
(I can't remember which now, we discovered that the cisco would not respond to 
to devices which were directly ether-attached.  As long as you have another
router on that LAN, things would generally work; but if a host only had a 
cisco to request information from... nothing!
 
We have been running 7.1(17) throughout North America with well over 100 nets
and zones supporting several thousand Apple devices for a couple of months now
with no further problems (at least none which would affect a network of the 
size you describe  :)  ).  

Cheers,
Pierre Fortin
BNR Internet Systems, Information Technology Division
FORTINP@BNR.CA