Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] routing problem
From: Roy Hockett (royboy@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 30 1997 - 00:12:45 EDT
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:42:29 -0700 (PDT) skippy@macro.stanford.edu (Bill
Studenmund) wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Miles Nordin wrote:
>
>> Mac's only choose their node address once at boot.
Appletalk devices AARP for network node information any time appletalk
services are started up, whether this be at startup or when you move a
mac from localtalk to ethernet.
>I don't think that'll mess up the router's booting with -seed, though,
as
>atalkd listens for other routers on the wire. Normal mac clients
>shouldn't respond, so there won't be a problem. Please let me know if
that's
>wrong.
Mac clients will not respond, however, other appletalk routers will,
such as routers, netware servers routing appletalk (3.1x servers
providing appletalk services), HP directjet cards, will all respond to
the router query for existing network info
on the network. However, if appletalk routing devices agree on the
network number/range, zone names, and default zone for the network then
bringing up a new router should not be a problem.
>Also, I don't think you have to have the macs off before booting the
>server/router. You just have to restart them after the router comes up
>before they will do appletalk correctly. Also, you only have to restart
>the macs if they booted with the router off, or with the router in a
>different configuration. So if the router just goes down, you can
>restart it in the same configuration, and the macs are fine.
You shouldn't have to restart them only toggle their network connection
from
ethernet to localtalk, back to ethernet. With Open Transport you
shouldn't even need to taggle it, but just open the "AppleTalk" control
panel and it will pole the network to see if there is a router.
-Roy Hockett
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