Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!falken From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R Falkenburg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: KSTAR and atalkad, atis. Summary: Hmm v4.1 is out now Message-ID: <4009af65.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 17:43:00 GMT References: <5566@saturn.ucsc.edu> <673@kinetics.UUCP> Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lines: 41 In article <673@kinetics.UUCP>, minshall@kinetics.UUCP (Greg Minshall) writes: > > 2. There is a lot of interest expressed in "laserfilter", "tildefilter", > etc. K-STAR does not currently support any of these flags. We are > trying to decide on exactly what to support here, and this is a > timely discussion. My (personal) main worry is that these options > might soon be superseded by some other set and then we get to carry > more luggage in the name of "backwards compatibility". However, hearing > many positive comments, and no negative ones, is somewhat convincing. > (By the way, another reason for the hesitation is that "laserfilter" > and "tildefilter" can slow the gateway down a fair bit; "stayinzone", > on the other hand, is very straightforward.) It would be nice if > there were some forum where all the interested parties could sit > down and hash out the required security features for an AppleTalk bridge. These features are EXTREMELY important for us here at umich. We have several large internets across campus which cross quite a few adminstrative and financial boundaries. Basically the introduction of the FastPath 4 (with no support for laserfilter) has caused a few people Im working with to be hesitant in getting their faspaths included in any of the larger internets. > > 3. Dave Falkenburg mentions that he has had to remove all KFPS-3's from > his atalkatab file in order to get the K-STAR code to work. This > is a mystery, and I'd love to know more. The intent with K-STAR is to > be compatible with KIP, and incompatibilities would be considered bugs. Actually it turns out that I had PROM revision 3.1 & K-STAR 1.1d (not the current versions) Kinetics just contacted us here about both this upgrade for the KFPS-4, *and* a new program for updating KFPS-3s > > Greg Minshall Kinetics > (415)947-0998 ...!ucbvax!unisoft!kinetics!minshall -dave -- Dave Falkenburg @ University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network ARPA: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu UUCP: umix!caen.engin.umich.edu!falken