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,
>
>Dave
>
>CCNA
>
>
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