Re: Shiva FastPath Help?

["Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com>]

I had "fastpath 5" in my eBay saved-searches list because I thought
there was a csa2 post (that I can't find now of course) that said the
5 was more reliable than the 4 and did not need to be reset (with a
Mac) if it lost power. Hmm... Not good.




On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:47:00 -0400, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>
wrote:

>pitz wrote:
>
>> I'm very interested in the problems that are experienced with the
>> FastPath 5.  I didn't run each setup for longer than a few minutes, so
>> I have not seen the problems.  Is it specific to A2s (with the
>> LocalTalk adapter) or to the IIgs?  If the IIgs does need Phase I,
>> wasn't there a setting in the FastPath 5 to select either Phase I or
>> Phase II?
>
>I tried just about everything, IIRC (it's been over 10 years since I relegated 
>my FP5 to the garage).
>
>I could crash the session with 100% reliability by starting WorkPerfect GS 
>from my netatalk server and walking away.  Within 15-20 minutes, the GS would 
>become non-responsive.  Logs on the Linux server report only that the session 
>was terminated by remote client.  I always assumed that the FP5 was not 
>properly managing Appletalk "keep alive" traffic (cannot remember what their 
>equivalent of icmp is called).
>
>With the FP4 or my current Gatorbox CS it will stay up all day.