Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!falken From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R Falkenburg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: FastPath PROM/Mgr version 4.1 bug? Summary: Please put down your weapon-- you have 20 seconds to comply Message-ID: <40f10ed7.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Date: 18 Jan 89 17:53:00 GMT References: Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lines: 37 In article , farrell@EREBUS.STANFORD.EDU (Phil Farrell) writes: > I just upgraded a FastPath 4 to the new 4.1 PROMs, 4.1 FastPath Manager II, > and 5.03 K-STAR Download file. We encountered difficulty loading K-STAR > into the upgraded box. Basically, the FastPath seemed determined to > auto-configure itself as an Atalk only router and we had to work hard to > bludgeon it into submission. > > After using RESET to clear out the existing program, we found that there was > a very short timeout (less than 20 seconds) to start the process of loading > the new K-STAR download file. If you didn't work very fast, the FastPath > would jump into auto-config mode and then refuse to accept your download > request. After the RESET, we had to do FIND ALL GATEWAYS, select the > FastPath, turn off AUTO CONFIG, select DOWNLOAD A FILE, and open the > K-STAR Download, all within that 20 second or less timeout period. > This is simply too short of a timeout, especially since it took us a long > time to figure out that there was in fact a timeout (it may be documentd, > but frankly, I didn't want to pore through the manual looking for such). > Are you listening, Kinetics? Can you increase this timeout to something > more reasonable? Say at least 45 seconds? > > Another, probably unrelated bug. FastPath Mgr would crash our Mac Plus > if we started the program while the FastPath was powered off and then > powered on the FastPath. > > Phil Farrell, Computers Systems Manager, Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences > farrell@erebus.stanford.edu Ouch! I thgought they would've fixed that in rev 4.1! (I'm STILL waiting for 4.1 upgrades as of today and have been running v3.1 w/ FastPath Mgr 1.1d since august!) shades of ED2000? -dave -- Dave Falkenburg @ University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network ARPA: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu UUCP: umix!caen.engin.umich.edu!falken