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============================================================================= AST RESEARCH, INC. TECHNICAL BULLETIN #0625A 05/16/90 ============================================================================= AST 5250 GATEWAY COMPATIBILITY ISSUES Data Comm Product Marketing has considered all aspects of the following compatibility issues relating to the AST 5250 Gateway product (part number 500399-001). They have made the determination that these issues will not be resolved for this product. These issues are as follows: - The Gateway software will not function correctly when used on a DCA 10 Net LAN. The master and one slave will operate as a Gateway master and slave. However, when a third node on the LAN tries to access one of these two (e.g., a workstation accessing a server), then all three systems lock up, requiring a cold boot of all the systems. (PR#A41040) - Under Novell Netware version 2.12 software, IBM Token Ring boards exhibit failures while running Gateway emulation. Any of the slaves on the gateway will intermittently lock up or lose communication to the master PC. (PR#A41044) - When running under Gateway emulation, a print job sent to a printer attached to a server using the Novell "CAPTURE" command does not print correctly. Print data is shifted 3 or 4 columns in from the left margin. (PR#A41051) - Under a configuration where the slaves are communicating with the master remotely via G-Remote Bridge (from Gateway Communications), the response time for communication between slaves and master is very slow. (PR#A41052) - The 5250 Gateway does not support an environment which uses IBM Token Ring cards running with Novell Netware 286 (all versions). When operating under this type of environment, the slaves will lose communication with the Gateway master, and require a reset to continue the session. (PR#A41023)