Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] eth0: Setting Rx mode...?
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 07 1997 - 17:44:15 EDT
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Colin Eric Johnson wrote:
> 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?
Timeouts. It's waiting to hear from a router, and tries three times, last
I looked.
> 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.
Though Appletalk is "chatty", that's the problem only to the extent that
atalkd asks the net for the current configuration.
The database in question includes, among other things, the local Atalk
address. If anything tries to start before that's stable, it'll get
mis-configured.
Take care,
Bill
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