Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!gatech!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ssbn!netsys!lamc!well!shibumi From: shibumi@well.UUCP (Kenton A. Hoover) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: FastPath PROM/Mgr version 4.1 bug? Message-ID: <10429@well.UUCP> Date: 21 Jan 89 03:12:12 GMT References: Reply-To: shibumi@well.UUCP (Kenton A. Hoover) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 23 In article morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU writes: > >Phil Farrell writes: > >> Basically, the FastPath seemed determined to auto-configure itself as ... ... >5) Download, configure, etc. > What we found (we have about 12 KFP-4s in our building) is that if a KFP gets a RTMP packet that lets it pick a network number while it is loading, it barfs on the download and autoconfigures with its new network number and name. The cure: Disconnect it from the appletalk...this seems to work just fine. We suspect that PAP status messages will also cause it to restart, but this has not yet been proven. -- ! Kenton A. Hoover {hplabs,apple,pacbell}!well!shibumi ! ! Phoenix Project Manager SNAIL: One Bush Street ! ! Hambrecht & Quist San Francisco, CA 94105 ! ! "Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb!" !