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From: tecot@momenta (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Bridge for Appletalk
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.225816.8448@momenta>
Date: 1 Feb 91 22:58:16 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.211602.7030@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Momenta Corporation
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declan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (D Fleming) writes:
>I'm trying to create a bridge with an old AT with 1664K of RAM.  The 
>bridge will serve our appletalk printers that are now hooked to the
>server.  

>I genned the bridge.exe and run it on the AT.  The 3 Mac VAPs run, then 
>a message - 'waiting for router information...' appears and nothing happens.

You've probably configured the bridge incorrectly.  I'm not surprised,
it's not obvious at all, and the manuals don't mention it.  I only know
this because I did the same thing myself and had to get Novell to help
me clear it up.

1) Make sure LAN A is the LAN with your server, and LAN B is AppleTalk.
If you get them backwards, the bridge will look for your server over
AppleTalk.

2) Make sure your net addresses are correct and non conflicting.  If you
got no errors before Waiting for router information... you probably did
this right.  Basically, each LAN ID must be unique and each device on the
same LAN must have the same ID.

Makes you wonder how Novell remains in business.

						_emt