Re: Configuring atalkd for a net with no routers


Subject: Re: Configuring atalkd for a net with no routers
From: Dennis Persinger (djp@uniblab.aero.org)
Date: Tue May 05 1992 - 21:56:13 EDT


>I'm trying to set up netatalk for use on a very trivial network
>(a IIci, a SPARC 2, and two printers using EtherPrint). My atalkd.conf
>file looks like this:
>
>ifconfig le1 0.0
>ifconfig lo0 0.0
>le1 UFOnet
>route le1 lo0
>zone UFOnet
>
>le0 is connected to a different network with no Appletalk devices on
>it. The problem is that atalkd refuses to acknowledge any other
>devices on the net. If I register foo:LaserWriter using nbprgstr,
>I can see it just fine on the IIci, but nbplkup will not find anything
>on the net (it doesn't even send out any traffic on the wire, as
>verified by a sniffer). I suspect this has something to do with the
>fact that both le1 and lo0 are using net number 0. Am I close?

Some other data:

* I can aecho devices on the net just fine (at least non-EtherPrint
devices, since EtherPrint will not respond to an echo. Even though the
EtherPrint didn't respond to an aecho, it did respond to the AARP).

* netstat -i from the machine in question:

Name Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis
Queue
le0 1500 130.221.192.0 ufo 658727 248 221340 0 15416 0
   
le1 1500 130.221.80.0 ufo2.aero.org 1968 0 1296 0 0 0
   
le1 1500 af16: 00.00.00.00.01 1968 0 1296 0 0 0
   
lo0 1536 loopback localhost 326942 0 326942 0 0 0
   
lo0 1536 af16: 00 326942 0 326942 0 0 0
   

* Both the IIci and EtherPrints are configured as Phase I
devices--confirmed by a sniffer.

* The IIci can see and use the printers just fine.

Confusedly yours,

Dennis Persinger
The Aerospace Corp.
djp@uniblab.aero.org



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