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From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike Paisley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacTCP on LocalTalk'ed machine
Keywords: MacTCP LocalTalk
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.232415.1258@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 23:24:15 GMT
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In article <1991Jan3.225522.21430@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike
Paisley) writes:
>
>After more hunting and pecking, I found that the dynamic addressing is working
>correctly as well.  Finally, Randy Thomas (rjt@sedist.cray.com) pointed out
>that the FastPath needed to create an object with name of the IP number of the
>box on the AppleTalk side and of type IPADDRESS.  I checked, and my machine
was
>creating an IPADDRESS object for itself, but there was no IPADDRESS object
from
>the FastPath.  Thus, this seems the most likely culprit. He's running gateway
>code KSTAR that came with his FastPath 4.  I'm running the code that came with
>my PROM upgrade (3.0), is this KSTAR?  Any ideas where to get KSTAR code that
>is still compatible with a FP-3?  Thanks.

Last Update on this topic:  I got a call from the person at Apple who wrote
MacTCP (sorry, I forgot your name), and he confirmed that the IPADDRESS object
was required for MacTCP to work correctly. Wow, I was impressed with Apple's
service on this one.  

I called Shiva to see if they had any older KSTAR code that would work on a
FP3, and they said that KSTAR 8.0, Manager 5.1 (both for FP4's) was all they
supported and noone at Novell (according to them) would actively keep any of
that stuff either.  Well, I guess its time I upgraded to a FP4, but it will
take time for me to beat a $1000 out of people for the upgrade, so if anyone
has a copy of the last KSTAR code that ran on a FP3, I'd appreciate hearing
from you.

Thanks to all the many people for helping me out with this one.

Mike Paisley     (919) 737-7781
paisley@mte.ncsu.edu
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET