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From: pradhan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ravi Pradhan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Kinetics Fatpath and QuickMail
Keywords: Fastpath, QuickMail, GatorMail
Message-ID: <16164@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 14:28:24 GMT
Reply-To: pradhan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ravi Pradhan)
Organization: Purdue University
Lines: 57

Sorry about the previous posting.  Hopefully, this will be a little better.


	
            Ethernet          -------------          Ethernet
      ========================| IP Router |=======================
                    |         -------------          |
                    |                                |
                    |                                |
                    |                                |
               --------------                   -------------
               | FastPath A |                   | FastPath B|
               --------------                   -------------
                    |                                |
                    |                                |
              AppleTalk Zone A                  AppleTalk Zone B 
                    |                                |
                    |                                |
              ----------------                  ----------------
              | QuickMail &  |                  | QuickMail    |
              |	 GatorMail   |                  | MailCenter B |
              |	Mailcenter A |                  |              |
              ----------------                  ----------------
					
	We recently installed a Fastpath 4 as a gateway from our Appletalk 
	Zone A to the University's Ethernet backbone.  It is a Kinetics 
	FastPath4 with K-Star 8.0, prom version 4.1.  The box is a J revision,
	the one that's supposed to have all the hardware problems fixed.  
	In Zone B, there is a similar Fastpath.

	In our Appletalk Zone A, I have a mailserver set up with Quickmail and
	Gatormail mailcenters.  In Zone B, there is a mailserver with only
	Quickmail mailcenters.
	
	My problem is that whenever anyone using QuickMail in Zone B tries to 
	send mail to people in Zone B, the FastPath A crashes, and has to be
	power cycled and re-booted.  The mere act of seeking Mailcenter A from
	Zone B causes the FastPath A to crash.

	However, I can send mail to Zone B without a problem.  In addition, if 
	users in Zone B use the reply function in QuickMail to respond to mail
	sent from Zone A, it comes through to Zone A fine.  Conferencing also 
	works dandy.

	There is no problem in sending Unix mail from other machines on the 
	Ethernet.

	Does anybody out there have any idea what might be going on?

	I spoke with tech support at CE, and at their suggestion, removed the
	GatorMail mailcenter, but it made no difference.  They also suggested
	checking if files can be transferred from Zone B to Zone A, but it works
	as it's supposed to.

	Any help would be appreciated.

	Ravi D Pradhan