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From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: GatorBox killing our SCO UNIX machines
Keywords: Film at 11
Message-ID: <10692@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 29 May 90 21:54:47 GMT
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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     Man, this is driving me crazy.

     We got a GatorBox Friday, and I waited until today to mess with it.  We
also got GatorShare, which maps AFP to NFS.  We were real excited; it was
supposed to solve all of our problems.

     We plugged it in, turned it on, configured everything just so, downloaded
the software.  Poof, every one of our SCO UNIX '386 machines on ethernet died.
(They just froze until a hard reboot.)  Several people with other sorts of
machines (e.g., PC/NFS) complained of an intolerably slow network for several
seconds.  Even someone with an rs232 connection to a Sun workstation
complained that the machine was suddenly intolerably slow.  Perhaps because
that Sun was a YP server, and a network gateway.
     This behavior is reproducible.
     A Sparcstation 330 reported the following error:

May 29 08:56:41 eagle vmunix: le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
May 29 08:56:41 eagle vmunix: le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared

     Cayman's response was "WOW!".  They're still working on it.
     Any ideas what is going on here?  This is getting kind of annoying.  Has
anybody seen anything like this before?  I can provide lots of details if you
want to help me solve the problem.

Brian H. Powell, M/S 56-14			National Instruments Corp.
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