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From: mmcintos@sirius.UVic.CA (Mark  McIntosh)
Subject: Re: GatorBox or FastPath ???
In-Reply-To: conrad@popvax.uucp's message of 4 May 91 06:31:18 GMT
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	<1991May2.150920.14352@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <6656@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 May 91 18:13:26 GMT

On 4 May 91 06:31:18 GMT, conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) said:
>In article <1991May2.150920.14352@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>>Crash recovery (e.g., after a power failure): The plain old Gatorbox was 
>>bad - you either had to reload it by hand, or keep a TFTP server running 
>>all the time. The TFTP loads never worked well for me for some reason.  ...
>Me neither.

We run TFTP from Suns and it works reliably except after a power
outage since its highly unlikely that the Sun will be ready before the
box needs its data :-).  So they have to be manually power cycled to
get them back.  The new Gatorbox CS just announced gets around this
problem by storing config information in a flash EEPROM.

>Yeah, but mine crashes when I do "show ip routes" since version 1.6....
>
>The reason I mentioned my second problem is partly to see if anyone
>else out there has had this one.  I haven't the time to try and
>diagnose and solve it with Cayman.

I am running some engineering bug fix versions of both Gatorshare and
Gatorsystem (not yet "official" releases, but you can get them if you
ask) and my boxes don't crash with that command.  Are you aware of the
Gatorbox users mailing list Cayman runs?  Send mail to
gbusers-request@cayman.com to join.  Tech support questions should
still go to support@cayman.com.

I'm not associated with Cayman other than as a person happy with their
tech support people.  If you have problems with a Gatorbox, I'd
recommend contacting them.

Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos@sirius.UVic.CA>
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