Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!andrew.cmu.EDU!dk1z# From: dk1z#@andrew.cmu.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Kbox/Kip problems Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 18:40:10 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.QUO6fOy00WA18AY0OC Posted: Wed Mar 25 18:40:10 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Mar-87 06:08:43 EST References: <12289303332.51.JOSEPH@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 39 Approved: info-applebus@c.cs.cmu.edu I'm sure that I'll be corrected on a few points, but here are my observations. 1) If you power off the gateway and bring it back up it should come up on its own. As I am paranoid, I tend to reload it by hand anyhow. 2) No informed answer. 3) I've had no stability problems and I've pounded on it pretty hard at times. From my experience, you should be able to count on it for weeks. 4) We do not have MacServe. We have had problems with Hayes InterBridges, though. 5) The timeout in MacTelenet (CMU/Columbia) is quite long. You can pick up the code from Columbia and change it, I believe. You can also talk to Stanford and pick up their version of Telenet which will soon have multiple connections and FTP. University of Illinois also has a multiple connection version with FTP. Stanford requires a license and $50 for the binary. I'm not sure about U.I. (You out there, Gaige?) 6) MacTelenet will probably not be getting many improvements. Mark Sherman worked on it to work with the new gateways and Charlie Kim has improved the TFTP handling and fixed a few bugs, but noone, as far as I know, is doing serious development on it. I take that back. We have a group of students who are working on designing and building a new interface for it but I have no time estimate on it. Stanford's version has two pages of scroll back and seems to be a good vt100 emulation. 7) Prompt frequently loses the Kinetics box. When I use Reset, the Kinetics box will reset, but Prompt will not find it. Power cycling always works. The Prompt screen is also totally useless and the configuration file drives me nuts. Having to encode the name and load file in hex is insane. If Kinetics would release the source, I'd be happy to upgrade it. If I had the time, I'd just write it from scratch, but I'm not that nuts, yet. Once I start handing boxes out to local administrators on campus I'm certain that I'm going to wish that I had rewritten it. -David Kovar