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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: GatorBox or FastPath ???
Message-ID: <6656@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 06:31:18 GMT
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In article <1991May2.150920.14352@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>In article <19841@slice.ooc.uva.nl> morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) 
>writes:
>> Are the 2 boxes comparible or can anyone say that the one is clearly 
>> better than the other ???
>...
>Crash recovery (e.g., after a power failure): The plain old Gatorbox was 
>bad - you either had to reload it by hand, or keep a TFTP server running 
>all the time. The TFTP loads never worked well for me for some reason.  ...

Me neither.

>Network management: The GatorBox lets you telnet to it and get routing 
>tables, statistics, etc.  ...

Yeah, but mine crashes when I do "show ip routes" since version 1.6....

It's not that I don't like our GatorBox.  If it weren't so late I would echo
many of John's praises.  It's just that these things are NOT perfect yet.  It's
a bit of a black art to set them up at first, and definitely a black art to
diagnose their problems and fix them.

The reason I mentioned my second problem is partly to see if anyone else out
there has had this one.  I haven't the time to try and diagnose and solve it
with Cayman.  Especially as I don't have a spare to fool with.  Since it works
for normal use I can't bounce it up and down during working hours.  It's much
nicer when these things go totally up in smoke, 'cause you can just tell the
users it's dead until further notice and take the time to figure it out for
real.  Besides, the solution is not to telnet to the dang thing....  ;-(

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