That's the one. Thanks. It's a very well-written article, worth reading
even if you don't have Macs. The gist of the problem is that the new Macs
are too fast (&;-) and you need to speed up spanning-tree convergence to
accommodate AppleTalk running on them.
Priscilla
At 03:54 PM 10/16/00, Daniel Cotts wrote:
>http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n30922
>
>May be the article to which Priscilla was referring.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:35 PM
> > To: Dave Redwood; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: appletalk on catalyst 5500 problem
> >
> >
> > Well, turning on portfast would have been my method of
> > troubleshooting
> > also. The other thought that comes to mind is that maybe the
> > EtherTalk
> > devices can't hear from their router quickly enough because
> > the switch
> > ports don't enter forwarding mode soon enough.
> >
> > An EtherTalk device sends a ZIPGetNetInfo packet to find its
> > router when it
> > boots. It sends this packet a few times. Perhaps the response
> > takes a long
> > time, causing the device to think it's not on an AppleTalk
> > internetwork to
> > start with. Then when it finally gets a response, it displays
> > the message
> > about the AppleTalk connection becoming available.
> >
> > I think we would need more info on your topology to
> > troubleshoot this.
> > Where is the router? Is it far away, across many switches?
> >
> > There used to be an article on this topic at Apple's site,
> > but I can't find
> > it anymore. But maybe you can search for help there. Good luck!
> >
> > Priscilla
> >
> >
> > At 11:02 PM 10/15/00, Dave Redwood wrote:
> > >Good evening everyone. Well, I'm here on my Sunday night
> > trying to figure
> > >out a problem I'm having with some of the newer
> > PowerMacintoshG4's and their
> > >interactions with a Catalyst 5500. For some reason the Macs
> > always come up
> > >without their AppleTalk(EtherTalk) connection up as it was
> > before a restart.
> > >A message that basically reads, "your appletalk connection has become
> > >available, you must open your appletalk control panel and
> > close it again in
> > >order to activate the connection". So, I thought that
> > maybe, possibly, it
> > >could be a STP issue on the Catalyst so I set it to port fast... the
> > >problem still occurrs. So while I think the problem is with
> > the MacOS I was
> > >curious if anyone has run into the same problem and if they knew of a
> > >solution... I took a look around CCO and the closest thing
> > I could find was
> > >that I should, perhaps, upgrade the software on my
> > supervisor engine... But
> > >I'd rather not just jump into that one. :-)
> > >
> > >Hope everyone had a good weekend,
> > >
>
> >
>
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