Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!popvax!conrad From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: GatorBox or FastPath ??? Summary: minor GatorBox problems... Keywords: GatorBox router TFTP tftp telnet Message-ID: <6673@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 6 May 91 03:01:15 GMT References: <19841@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <1991May2.150920.14352@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <6656@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard University, Office for Information Technology Lines: 79 In article mmcintos@sirius.UVic.CA (Mark McIntosh) writes: >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, the new 'Boxen sound much nicer. I know lots of people never have any problems with the tftp downloading. I however find that I often must cycle the damn 'Box four or five times before it will successfully download its config- uration information. >>Yeah, bit 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. Yeah, I too am running some engineering bug fix versions of both GatorShare and GatorSystem (I forget which "build" -- 16?). I got this stuff a while ago when I thought I would try to fix the problem with Cayman's help. It didn't fix it. And like I explained in my post, I can't exactly bash on the 'Box to test it as it's the _only_ way lots of people can reach our mainframe and do their real work. I guess the basic truth is that there are probably not many 'Boxen configured similarly, on similarly configured networks, in this world. Which is perhaps why your setup works nicely and mine has some problems. Mind you mine used to have much greater problems than it does now. At least now it is stable. That is it works solidly until power drops to the 'Box or I try to get fancy and telnet to it to get statistics. >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. I am aware of the various support channels for 'Boxen. I too have found Cayman support to be very good. (Well, there was one support person who took a couple of tries (i.e. weeks) to upload something to an ftp server in the right format). Like I said, my problems aren't catastrophic and I can't afford the down time to check out things that basically work. As I had said in my posting, I too am basically very happy and would have said many good things if it hadn't been so late. I wasn't really griping seriously, just mentioning a couple of personally-observed glitches. I was not even very anxious to solve this problem of mine. I guess I was just curious to see if others had observed this behaviour. I was not suggesting that all 'Boxen or all 'Boxen with a certain version of the software or all 'Boxen using some particu- lar configuration might have this problem. Rather it is more likely that _all_ of these factors _plus_ a bunch of others relating to the local network would have to be similar for such a problem to appear. So, thank you very much for the suggestions. I am sorry if I sounded like a griper. I don't want people to take that as my intent.... +---- C o n r a d C . N o b i l i ----+ | | | Harvard University | Internet: conrad@harvarda.harvard.edu | | Office for Info. Tech. | conrad@popvax.harvard.edu | | Information Services | BITNET: CONRAD AT HARVARDA | | Technical & User Services | CONRAD AT HARVSPHB | | 1730 Cambridge Street | voice: (617) 495-8554 | +---- Cambridge, MA 02138 | fax: (617) 495-0715 ----+