Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!sask.usask.ca!CUSTEAD From: CUSTEAD@sask.usask.ca Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: KIP, K-STAR incompatibility Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 89 17:50:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 We have a net full of fastpath 3's and fastpath 4's, with an Appletalk Bridge (Shiva) connected as shown: ==================== Ethernet =================================== | | | | | | FastPath X Fastpath 3 Fastpath 4 | | (localtalk) | SHIVA NetBridge | | ZONEC The Shiva Bridge publishes its own zone. (call it ZONEC) This zone is not known to the atalkad daemon that manages all of the fastpaths. If Fastpath X is a fastpath 3, then all of the other 3's acquire ZONEC, but none of the 4's know about it. If Fastpath X is a fastpath 4, then all of the other 4's acquire ZONEC, but none of the 3's know about it. Each Fastpath seems to share ZONEC with only its own kind! Fastpath X was made a core gateway for each test. (The 3's run KIP and the 4's run K-STAR.) Is there a explanation for this incompatibility?? Larry R. Custead Univ of Saskatchewan internet: custead@sask.usask.ca bitnet: custead@sask usenet: alberta!dvinci!custead