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From: moyman@ECN.PURDUE.EDU (James M Moya)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacTCP and FastPath 4
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Date: 14 Nov 90 18:28:21 GMT
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>From: ncar.ucar.edu!hpoppe@handies.ucar.edu  (Herb Poppe)
>Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
>Subject: MacTCP and FastPath 4
>
>I have not been successful in getting MacTCP on LocalTalk nodes to work 
>with a FastPath 4 (4.1 ROMs) running the built-in "IP sub-sectioning" code.
>
>I called Shiva Tech Support and was told that this was possible, but 
>required patching MacTCP with ResEdit. He claimed that they run FastPaths 
>that way in house, but could not tell me how to make the patch.

Wonderful, tech support saying you need to modify *MacTCP* to *fix* the
problem.

> He also 
>said that there was no one else there that could help me.

There never is...

>
>If anyone in netland knows how to do this, I would sure like to know how. 
>If, in fact, it is not possible to make MacTCP work with "IP 
>sub-sectioning", I would like to hear about that, too.

I would also like to know this *fix*


I have also been getting intermittant problems with MacTCP with the new
Shiva Boxes.  The Kinetics FP-4 running KSTAR 7.0 had no problems
what-so-ever with MacTCP.  Since booting up several Shiva Boxes upgrades,
with 7.0.1 and 8.0.1 the IP problems have started to pour in.  Nothing like
upgrading FastPath *1* that hasn't given me a lick of trouble in 3 years,
to a Shiva 4 that has been complaining since I booted it up...they didn't
tell me that was include in the upgrade.  The old FP was slow but hey, it
worked flawlessly.  What a deal!

>Then I'll stop 
>wasting time on this and use K-STAR 8.x.
>
You may be wasting your time with KSTAR also...^^^
--moya

--Mike Moya 
--Macintosh Systems and Networking
--Engineering Computer Network, Purdue University
--moyman@ecn.purdue.edu or ..!pur-ee!moyman