Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] HELP: nbprgstr problems with Linux
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 10 1997 - 06:51:25 EDT
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John Sutton wrote:
> If this is the explanation, the corollary is that you must ensure that all
> existing appletalk machines are active (in a given zone?) when you first
> start up a new one. Otherwise there can be no guarantee than it won't
> allocate itself an id which is the same as that of a machine which doesn't
> happen to be switched on. Huh? Sounds pretty messy if the zone gets big
> enough...
This is not quite right - a mac will by defualt check its address when
first switched on to make sure it doesn't conflict with a device already
on the network. If it does then it chooses another address.
Problems can aries when the netatalk box is switched off. Another machine
can take its address, and when the netatalk machine is switched back on,
it does not check AFAIK to see if the address is already in use.
-- 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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