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RSILVERMAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

> Hello!  We have the Stanford KIP, which we would like to run on our
> single Appletalk network bridged to our campus Ethernet.  As we have
> no 4.3 BDS Unix machines to run the admin daemons in the package
> (atalkad), I would like to send all the configuration info to the
> gateway when I boot it from a Mac.  At the end of the prompt.config
> file, there is a comment to the effect that if a certain flag at the
> end is sent, then the rest of the config file is taken to contain
> configuration info; otherwise, it will be requested from the admin
> host on startup.  Nowhere, however, can I find what the *format* of
> the config info should be!  Can someone enlighten me?

As far as I know, this feature isn't really implemented.  I believe it
is unfortunately the case that if you can't run atalkad somewhere, you
can't run KIP.  Perhaps the best solution would be to upgrade your
existing Kinetics box (assuming it's a KFPS-2 or -3) to the "-2U" or
"-3U" version (new ROMs and more RAM; service and details available
from Kinetics).  This will allow you to run Kinetics' K-Star software
instead of KIP.  K-Star is able to be statically configured, and is
better in other ways as well (though worse in some others . . .).

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford