Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] token-ring
From: Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us)
Date: Mon Jul 14 1997 - 20:56:15 EDT
Q. Will the drivers for your netcards let you put them into promiscuous
mode?
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> From: mt@carthage.edu
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu; I.A.Cameron@open.ac.uk; hamptonb@clark.net
> Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] token-ring
> Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 7:56 PM
>
>
> Dear Ian, Brian, and netatalk-admins,
>
> Thanks you for sharing your knowledge. I took Ian's advice
> and, sure enough, /etc/services was missing the four ddp entries.
> However, while that made the "Unknown service" message go away,
> appletalk still doesn't work on this computer. In the meantime,
> I also:
>
> - recompiled my kernel (still linux 2.0.30) with ddp built in (as
> opposed to being a loadable module); still no good.
>
> - followed Brian's lead and installed an ethernet card to see
> whether it's a token-ring support issue; still no good (both
> eth0 and tr0 work with IP, but neither works with ddp).
>
> The state it's in now is that 'getzones' gives the message (after
> a while) "atp_resp: Connection timed out"; 'atalkd' gives an immediate
> "AppleTalk not up! Child exited with 1.", and 'ifconfig tr0 ddp up;
> ifconfig eth0 ddp up; ifconfig' shows no change in the interface (it
> doesn't look like ddp comes up at all, although neither of the first
> two ifconfigs give any error). This happens whether my /etc/atalkd.conf
> looks like
>
> tr0
> eth0
>
> or like
>
> tr0 -phase 2 -net 1-10 -addr 1.222
> eth0 -phase 2 -net 9000-9099 -addr 9000.222
>
> Anyone have any further ideas on this? I really appreciate it --
> thanks!
>
> -- Mark
>
> Ian Cameron wrote:
> >> - 'getzones' gives "Unknown service."
> >
> >Do you have the correct entries in /etc/services ?
> >
> >rtmp 1/ddp # Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
> >nbp 2/ddp # Name Binding Protocol
> >echo 4/ddp # AppleTalk Echo Protocol
> >zip 6/ddp # Zone Information Protocol
> >
> >I found when trying to run netatalk on a RedHat Intel box using a
> >binary RPM that /etc/services did not contain the correct entries and
> >the RPM did not update them either, which resulted in an "Unknown
> >service." error from getzones.
> >
> >Hope this helps some.
>
> Thanks!
>
> >Cheers, Ian.
>
> Mark Tomory
> Carthage College
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