Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] routing problem
From: Miles Nordin (carton@Ivy.NET)
Date: Fri Jul 25 1997 - 19:20:27 EDT
> Try something like:
>
> fxp0 -phase 2 -net 1-1 -addr 1.1 -zone "FirstZone" -seed
> fxp1 -phase 2 -net 2-2 -addr 2.1 -zone "SecondZone" -seed
> fxp2 -phase 2 -net 3-3 -addr 3.1 -zone "ThirdZone" -seed
> ep0 -phase 2 -net 4-4 -addr 4.1 -zone "FourthZone" -seed
>
> Also, your FreeBSD box will now, I think, route between the nets.
as a standard disclaimer, i've never done this bevore either but have read
about it a lot. hopefully i am not about to make a fool of myself.
I don't think you need to specify different zones on each net. I think
you may be better off using one zone.
Second, there is one more thing you need to know that he didn't tell you.
There is an ordedr this has to be done in.
1. Shut off _every_ mac on all four subnets. NO EXCEPTIONS. maybe use
nbplkup starting atalkd one net at a time to ensure this.
2. Start atalkd on the FreeBSD machine with Bill's suggested atalkd.conf
3. Restart all the Mac's.
Mac's only choose their node address once at boot. If there is no router
on the subnet, they will choose the zoneless nets above 65280. If there
is a router, they will choose an address that falls in the acceptable
range indicated by the router. but, you cannot start a -seed router if:
a. there is another seed router on the subnet, or
b. there is a Mac on the subnet powered on that did not boot under
the controlling influence of the seed router you are trying to
bring up.
so... remember, 1 seed router per subnet, and don't start new seed
routers until everyone else is off the subnet.
For example, if you were to get yet another FreeBSD box with two
interfaces routing between the net on fxp2 and a fifth subnet, you would
config the interface that shared fxp2's wire _without_ -seed, and the
fifth subnet _with_ -seed. and, everyone on the fifth subnet would have
to power down before you started this second FreeBSD router.
make sense? anyway good luck... as i say i've never done this myself,
but as with most things that come out of Apple, the rules have an eerie
almost essential seductive logic to them.
Bill, feel free to correct (and cc: me) if i am wrong about any of this.
i don't have to do this now but probably will some day. k. tks, later
guys.
-- Miles Nordin home 1-888-857-2723 555 Bryant Street #182 or +1 510 608-1813 Palo Alto, CA 94301 http://www.ivy.net/~carton
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