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From: darieb@SANDIA.GOV ("2614 Rieb, Declan A.")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Help
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Date: 2 Oct 89 15:33:00 GMT
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OK.  I give.  I can't figger it all out-  H E L P, please!

Object:  To share a LW (II NTX) between Sun workstations and Macs...using available
resources.  The LW is using AppleTalk (LocalTalk?).  We've got a KFP-4 running KSTAR,
several Mac's (II's) with EtherPortII cards, talking to an Ethernet "backbone" onto
which are connected several Sun's (3, 4, 386i, SPARC...)

I've tried using the KFP thusly:

  SUN---\
  SUN-------ethernet---KFP---LocalTalk---LW
  MAC----/
  MAC---/

The Mac's can see the LW just fine, in its own zone called "AppleTalk".  The Sun running
CAP can see the KFP (At least getzones tells me about the zones correctly)  But I
can't seem to get any info thru the KFP to the LW from the Sun.  atlook to the AppleTalk
zone finds no servers, atlooklws can find no LWs.  atlook with no parameters simply
tells me the internet address of the KFP (and calls it IPADDRESS, not IPGATEWAY [is
that significant?])  I haven't turned on atis...I'm still trying to test the access
as described in the (multitude of) installation guides/notes/manuals.

Is there a better architecture for this problem (without dedicationg a full Mac or
Sun to handling the traffic)?

I'm willing to take this problem out of the distribution list space (i.e. directly)
 since I'm a rank beginner with CAP etc, and I expect this has been discussed before.

  BTW, is there a "Answers to frequently asked questions" archive available for
info-appletalk?

P.S. is there a list of which patches I should apply to the CAP distribution I got
from Columbia?  How can I tell if the original sources have been patched already?


Declan A. Rieb           	INTERnet:DARieb@Sandia.GOV
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