Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!sirius!mmcintos From: mmcintos@sirius.UVic.CA (Mark McIntosh) Subject: Re: GatorBox or FastPath ??? In-Reply-To: conrad@popvax.uucp's message of 4 May 91 06:31:18 GMT Message-ID: Lines: 36 Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA Nntp-Posting-Host: sombrio.uvic.ca Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada References: <19841@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <1991May2.150920.14352@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <6656@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: Sun, 5 May 91 18:13:26 GMT On 4 May 91 06:31:18 GMT, conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) said: >In article <1991May2.150920.14352@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes: >>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. We run TFTP from Suns and it works reliably except after a power outage since its highly unlikely that the Sun will be ready before the box needs its data :-). So they have to be manually power cycled to get them back. The new Gatorbox CS just announced gets around this problem by storing config information in a flash EEPROM. >Yeah, but mine crashes when I do "show ip routes" since version 1.6.... > >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. I am running some engineering bug fix versions of both Gatorshare and Gatorsystem (not yet "official" releases, but you can get them if you ask) and my boxes don't crash with that command. Are you aware of the Gatorbox users mailing list Cayman runs? Send mail to gbusers-request@cayman.com to join. Tech support questions should still go to support@cayman.com. I'm not associated with Cayman other than as a person happy with their tech support people. If you have problems with a Gatorbox, I'd recommend contacting them. Mark J. McIntosh ____________________________________________________________________________ University of Victoria, Faculty of Engineering - Dean's Office Box 3055, Victoria, BC, CANADA \ "...the mystery of life isn't a problem to V8W 3P6 (604) 721-6049 \ solve but a reality to experience." UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!sirius!mmcintos \ from Dune