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From: thomason@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Bill Thomason)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Strange happenings with Apple's Internet Router
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Date: 4 Dec 89 23:42:58 GMT
Reply-To: thomason@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Bill Thomason)
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I have just encountered a strange bug with Apple's Internet Router.
Our network has a configuration of 9 MacII's running MacOS, 9 A/UX
machines and 1 MacII running Appleshare.  I am running the Internet
Router on the file server.  From observing the various port statistics,
the Router SEEMS to be working.  From the chooser on the file server, I can
see the two Appletalk zones - 1 ethertalk(the network all of the above
machines are connected to) and 1 localtalk( a network with 2 appletalk
imagewriters and 1 laswerwriter).  Last night the Appletalk zones disappeared
from every Mac's chooser.  The file server disappeared from everyone's
machine as well.

After checking the status of the file server and the router, I could find
nothing wrong.
From that time on, the file server acted very strangely.  This morning I
took the drastic measure and reformatted the file server, reinstalled
all software including the Internet Router.  I set up the two networks
again and brought the Router to a running status.  Again from the chooser
of file server I could see the 2 zones but not from any other mac in the lab.

Anyone else have this problem?  If so, what steps were taken to remedy it?

Thanks,
-Bill Thomason
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