Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] eth0: Setting Rx mode...?
From: Richard Wackerbarth (rkw@dataplex.net)
Date: Sun Jul 06 1997 - 06:37:57 EDT
At 3:58 AM -0500 7/6/97, Georg Schwarz wrote:
>Does anyone happen to know why atalkd takes
>so long to start up? (it's a Pentium 100 with 24 MB RAM, so that should
>not be an issue) Is atalk somehow listening to the network waiting for
>something (router?)? Could I tell it not to?
Exactly. One of the advantages of the Appletalk protocol is that it is self
configuring.
However this comes at a price. During startup, each host guesses at an
acceptable address and then has to probe the network to see if there is a
conflict. If the host is a router or other service device, it takes an
address from a reserved range but with the added responsibility of making a
more thorough probe of the network.
Unfortunately, this all takes time. Futhermore, you have to decide on your
address before you can start other Appletalk services.
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