Re: [netatalk-admins] eth0: Setting Rx mode...?


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] eth0: Setting Rx mode...?
From: Colin Eric Johnson (colinj@cs.unm.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 06 1997 - 13:08:11 EDT


On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Georg Schwarz wrote:

        [snip]

> thanks for confirming this. 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?

I would assume that this has to do with the fact that Appletalk is a very
"chatty" protocol. I know that in the readme for netatalk it warns that
atalkd should not be started in the background as it has to build a
database. I don't think it's "waiting" for anything, I believe it is
recording the other appletalk devices it finds.

just a guess.

Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/
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