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AST RESEARCH, INC. TECHNICAL BULLETIN #0625A 05/16/90
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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)