Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a11 bug?
From: Duncan Sinclair (sinclair@dis.strath.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 11 1997 - 10:04:35 EDT
cmt20@luigi.tees.ac.uk writes:
>Hi folks,
>I've just installed netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a11 and I seem to have discovered
>a few "undocumented features" namely:
>
> [[ Can't run two copies of "asun" netatalk. ]]
This will be because there will only be one "well-known" port, and you
can't have two servers listening to the same port.
The port is "well-known" in that the client has to know that that's where
the server is listening. So, for example, 25 is the "well-known" port
number of the SMTP mail protocol.
(sorry if this is too noddy for you.)
AppleTalk gets round this by not having "well-known" ports, but instead
puts the port number in the NBP record.
There are two solutions:
1) Acquire a second IP number (by way of a virtual interface) and
persuade the two afpd to run on different interfaces.
2) Hack afpd to allow multiple virtual servers from the one afpd.
(Sort-of like a papd.conf file for afpd.)
The second is the correct solution.
Duncan Sinclair.
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