Re: [netatalk-admins] Zones w/o routing?


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Zones w/o routing?
From: Andrew Brennan (brennan@crashprone.allegheny.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 12 1997 - 13:26:25 EDT


On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Alistair Riddell wrote:

> 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.

   I am the only AppleTalk router on my segment. There is no conflict
   here ... but I can't seem to get my atalkd to advertise zones as it
   only has the one network interface. Do I need to use a fake second
   interface (dummy or perhaps a loopbacked ethernet interface) in the
   machine to get atalkd to act as a router??

> You can have more than one seed router on the network but they must all
> agree about the zone list (among other things).

   I thought multiple seed routers was considered a poor practice - to
   the point of being strongly recommended against?

> So if there is already a router connected to your network which has been
> put there by network admins to connect you to anotehr network then the
> configuration of that router will have to be changed.

   Hmm. My message wasn't clear. The network admins don't "do" Macs
   or AppleTalk, so there isn't any help from them in this matter.

> 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.

   I took a stab at this, but I'm still not seeing any zone info in my
   /etc/atalkd.conf - it's being rewritten without the zones.

   andrew. (brennan@auhs.edu)



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