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Path: ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MS-DOS FST Message-ID: <1991Dec13.120421.15702@cco.caltech.edu> Date: 13 Dec 91 12:04:21 GMT References: <l739870@pro-fred.cerf.fred.org> <NAGENDRA.91Dec12114744@bucsf.bu.edu> <1991Dec12.224819.36340@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 30 dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Rob Dewhirst) writes: >is bad enough, and I think anyone who writes software that crashes a >networked machine ought to be shot. If FTA has the forsight to make >their software network friendly I might take that back, but I'm not Oh, so THAT's what was causing the crashes I got after running noisetracker. Actually, the network drivers on the GS are pretty brain-dead anyway, it can't be hard to confuse the hell out of them. I've had problems with file-tansfers to/from a marginal (CAP/AUFS) server in another Zone (acutally a unix machine on the ethernet side of the fastpath) where the connection gets dropped, the AppleShare FST sits there for two freaking minutes holding up the entire machine before it decides the server is gone, and then the AppleTalk protocols are convinced that the gateway is gone and won't believe it's come back until the gateway's 10-second RTMP broadcast is successfully received. I got sick of waiting for it and so I just pop into Visit Monitor and poke the gateway's node number into E1/D013, and the zone list pops back up in a jiffy. BTW for those of you who are interested, the net number is a reverse word at E1/D010, and your machine's node number is at E1/D012, although I haven't played with D012 much yet so do so at your own risk. Hey Mark Day -- any chance the AppleTalk drivers could be patched to broadcast ZIP requests when the BridgeNode is 0 ?? It would make my life a lot easier!! I can manually broadcast a GetZoneList with a utility I wrote, but the protocol drivers' ZIP listener doesn't clue in to the fact that a gateway answered. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu