Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Zones w/o routing?
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 05 1997 - 13:07:15 EDT
I'm afraid it looks like you'll have to persuade your network admins to
co-operate. If you want to be able to choose which zone each device on
your appears in then you must configure the seed router to create more
than one zone on the interface which is connected to your network segment.
You can have more than one seed router on the network but they must all
agree about the zone list (among other things). So if there is already a
router connected to your network which has been put there by network
administrators to connect you to anotehr network then the configuration of
that router will have to be changed.
If you configure a router to create zones on an interface which is not
physically connected to your network (e.g. loopback or dummy interface)
then those zones will appear in the chooser but you will not be able to
place any devices in them.
You can use this to create zones called "Forbidden Zone" or "Twilight
Zone" which no devices will ever appear in...
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Andrew Brennan wrote:
> Ok ... we have a slush of different Macs (& printers) in different
> departments -- all on the same physical segment of our network. I
> would like to toss in some zones so that it's not as ugly, but all
> of the systems I have in that segment have only one interface.
>
> I am trying to rig the dummy0 (Linux) interface so that netatalk's
> routing will be happy and I'll get the zones I want ... but it may
> not work. Is there any way to pull this one off?? I could see if
> one of the routers could be configured to do this ... but our net-
> admins aren't terribly responsive -- and even less where AppleTalk
> and Macs are concerned.
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594
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