Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!mintaka!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Cayman GatorBox questions Message-ID: <4565@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Date: 20 Oct 90 16:49:41 GMT References: <9010191653.AA19825@saba.Cayman.COM> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 24 It is not at all obvious from the documentation that you can't do ethertalk-only AFP/NFS translation unless you have also enabled LocalTalk/EtherTalk routing. Therefore, my poorly-worded messages here on c.p.a constituted no problem at all. (I.e., it's a "feature".) I have an outstanding call to Cayman tech support regarding my attempts to install the GatorBox at a site in which I needed NFS but not LocalTalk routing to Ethertalk. Naturally I enabled one but not the other. As seems clear from your message, that was exactly my problem. It won't work if you don't have routing enabled. Aargh. Frankly, after a week or two of playing with these, they seem neat but there are a lot of rough edges. Tying ethertalk routing to NFS has all sorts of side-effects, like if you reboot the GatorBox, it suddenly gets "lost" from the point of view of GatorKeeper (of course it does--there's no router there anymore!) Are there any plans to handle initial setup over Ethertalk without having the box have to have a LocalTalk connection? -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu