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From: wicinski@NRL-CSS.ARPA (tim wicinski)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: KFPS-II's and KIP 6/88
Message-ID: <8806162128.AA12713@nrl-css.arpa>
Date: 16 Jun 88 21:28:11 GMT
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We have a few Kboxes, model I's which work great. no problems once we
picked up the new Kinetics ROMs.  We went out and bought a bunch of
model II's figuring these would be better, and all we have had are
problems.  We have the "patched" model II's, i.e. the ones that have the
capicator attached to the chip.  

What happens is that the box will configure and work fine, then for
unknown reasons, totally disappear from the net.  You can ping them from
ethernet, but running CheckNet from Farallon, or the CAP 'atlook' programs
shows nothing.  Running the
FastPath Manager shows nothing either.  "atalkad boot" gets a "no
response from xxx" followed by a "aaCONF", "aaROUTE"... But running
'atlook' still shows nothing. The only way to get the box working is to
physically power cycle it.  Has anyone seen this problem before ? it's
real hair-pulling as nothing seems to trigger the Kbox, it disapears
from sight.

thanks
tim