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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Quirks with Ethertalk
Keywords: FastNet III 3COM Broadcast Public Folder
Message-ID: <10888@claris.com>
Date: 19 Feb 90 17:45:51 GMT
References: <655@shuldig.Huji.Ac.IL>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <655@shuldig.Huji.Ac.IL> shmuli@shum.huji.ac.il (Shmuel Browns) writes:
>
>    I have a Mac IIx with a 3COM ethernet card connecting me to the campus
>ethernet.  A colleague has a Mac II with a Dove FastNet II ethernet card
>connecting him to campus ethernet.  Therefore, the 2 of us can run Appletalk
>protocols over ethernet.  We each tried running Broadcast 1.2 & Public Folder
>1.0 - I could "see" jeff with Broadcast and Public Folder and successfully
>sent him a message and fetched a file.  He could "see" both himself and me
>running Broadcast with AppleTalk on but not my public folder; with Appletalk
>off running PF, he got a message that AppleTalk was required and it was turned
>on automatically but now he could not see me anymore.
>    I know is that I have a CDEV (Network) that lets me choose whether Appletalk
>packets will go out the printer port (Built-in) or via the ethernet card
>(Ethertalk).  Jeff's card does not have the Ethertalk option but only FastNet.
>He doesn't have the EtherTalk 1.1 document in his system folder.  Should he??
>Can anyone explain what is going on?
>    Shmuel

I'm not really sure what's happening here, but one possibility is that you are
turning off AppleTalk (be it EtherTalk or LocalTalk) after boot time.  When
this happens the server portion of Public Folder gets disconnected from the
net.  Even if you are switching from EtherTalk to LocalTalk (or vise versa)
this will happen.  This is because Public Folder 1.0 doesn't look to see the
net coming down and going up again and it never reregisters it's name.

The work around here is to reboot after reconfiguring from LocalTalk to
EtherTalk.

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