Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!ames!amelia!wgreene
From: wgreene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William H. Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AlisaTalk and KIP
Message-ID: <543@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Apr 88 17:15:30 GMT
References: <136*mroger@cc.uofm.cdn>
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Summary: Our experiences with AlisaTalk and KIP

In article <136*mroger@cc.uofm.cdn>, mroger@cc.uofm.CDN (Michael Rogers) writes:
> I've been trying to get the AlisaTalk file server software to work using the
> KIP gateway code rather than the Ethertalk code as supplied.  Things seem
> to work initially (I can see the names of the disks on our vax from the mac)
> however when I try to mount one of the disks, the mount fails.  
>  
> Is anyone running Alisatalk with KIP?  If so, were there any problems
> that you encountered.  (or are these products known to be incompatible). 
> I have tested NCSA telnet and that is working using KIP so I assume
> (probably incorrectly) that KIP was installed correctly.  I have, however,
> determined that the K-box is not responding to ZIP query packets.  Is this
> clue?  

I assume you are using the 1/88 version of KIP in order to get support
for EtherTalk. We tried exactly what you describe and our results were
identical to yours. Things seem to work until we try to mount the remote
disks. Your observation that the K-box is not responding to ZIP packets
is interesting... we haven't tried to track down the source of the problem
yet.

We have noticed another peculiarlity with the K-boxes running KIP 1/88
with EtherTalk turned on. When we use the Chooser from a different
LocalTalk segment to select a printer on the LocalTalk segment attached
to the K-box in question the results are erratic. LaserWriters appear
then disappear, the reappear again in the Chooser window. Anyone noticed
similar behavior ? When we turn EtherTalk off on that K-box, everything
is fine.

I would appreciate help on either of these problems. If someone can 
suggest some experiments to try that isolate the problem, I'd be
interested in trying them.

                               Bill Greene