A PowerComputing 100 with Mac OS 7.5.1 was complaining of slow network access compared to its twin neighbor, so since I had a spare network card, I tried swapping out the Asante card with a Dayna, and also tried using built-in ethernet with a transceiver. (We had an excess of ethernet cards at one time, and a shortage of transceivers, so that's why some are using cards.) Both with the Dayna card, and with built-in, everything would work fine, *except* access to the Linux servers and printers. TCP/IP ok (pings from the server side, telnet sessions from the client side), EtherTalk ok (peer connections to other Macs and vice-versa). Shows up ok with "nbplkup :AFPserver", *but* I could not "aecho" that address. Now that I've put the old ethernet card back in, and everything is fine again (albeit about 1/3 slower it should be, but that's ok for now). So is there the equivalent of an arp cache out there maybe, that was holding onto a certain hardware address for that AFPserver address? If I had been able to wait long enough, would such a change propagate? We have a small flat network with no routers, and no zones. --rich "I am now telling the computer *exactly* what it can do with half a lifetime's supply of chocolate." ... Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
