On Fri, 1 Sep 1995 15:14:58 -0400 John Kramer said:
>>In article <H000006600031be3@MHS>, [log in to unmask] says:
>>>Spooled and hot printers on the DTC work fine.
>>>Sessions can be started on the DTC ports with :STARTSESS and work.
>>>But, if a user hits <CR> on a logged-off terminal, they immediately
>>>get a "Cannot Establish Connection" error.
>
>We found the problem to be the one-time HP Probe broadcast from the DTC to
>resolve the address for the HP host.  HP Probe is a UDP/IP packet with a wierd
>broadcast destination address.  The router was bridging all AFCP packets fine,
>but was not passing the UDP/IP packet forward since it acted as a router for
>this known protocol.
 
Get a cisco - they route probe properly :-)  Probe is a "multicast" and not a
true broadcast, as I recall.
 
[\] Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>