[Info-vax] strange LAT problem

[John E. Malmberg]

On 12/3/2018 4:44 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <9yCAzkk8+gFG at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 
>>     LAT is extreemly sensitive to timing, and it's possible that the
>>     switch does not meet the needs of LAT.  We've seen network bridges
>>     that required special firmware to hande LAT.  (Not routers, LAT is
>>     not a routable protocol, one can expect it to stop at a router.)
> 
> But in that case, why does it occur ONLY after a satellite boots and
> goes away and stays away after LAT is restarted (on one of the boot
> nodes, not on the satellite), even though the restart says that it is
> already running?

It might take looking at some wireshark traces of the LAT traffic to get 
more information.  See what is different from working and non-working.

Good Luck,
-John