Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Routing question
From: Andrew Solmssen (solmssen@ca.metsci.com)
Date: Wed Oct 15 1997 - 04:38:34 EDT
Could you be more specific about how to do this - I'm having an
interesting problem with atalkd. I have a small Appletalk net running
phase 2 with a range of 10000-10000. The only router on the net is a Shiva
Lanrover running in seed mode propagating the above net as "Metron ET" and
keeping the dialup ports in a net numbered 10021 and called "Metron
Dial-In". I'm running straight 1.4b2 netatalk on Red Hat 4.2 Linux. All
was well until ... (drum roll, please)
The linux box has an 3com 3c905 which was falling victim to a transmit
timeout problem in the driver, causing all network communication to cease.
I replaced the driver with the latest from Donald Becker's Vortex web
page, and my transmit timeouts have stopped, but now when atalkd rewrites
the conf file at load time, it writes something like
eth0 -phase 2 -net 0-62580 -addr 62580.113
and the linux box can be seen in the chooser but not logged into. If I
change the Lanrover to seed a range like 10000-10001, then atalkd seems to
do the right thing.
Questions:
Is a phase 2 range of X-X valid? Or must it be X-Y where
Y is greater than but not equal to X?
Why would something like this only show up with the new 3c59x.c file -
that seems lower level then netatalk would be fooling with...
I guess I could just leave things with the 10000-10001 net range, but this
affects my sense of network esthetics negatively. I guess I'm having a
conceptual problem with phase 2 - does there need to be a one-to-one
mapping between net numbers and zone names? If not, is there any
disadvantage or advantage to a net that has a couple of numbers included?
What is the advantage in general of zones that encompass more than one net
number?
On a more general note - I know that on a net with multiple zones I use
the Network or Appletalk control panel to assign the Mac to a zone, but
as an network manager, how do I enforce that selection? What's to keep my
users from saying I don't want to be in the Work zone, I'd rather be in
the Fun zone, and changing this themselves? Can I assign Macs to zones
remotely?
Thanks for any help and knowledge you can provide...
---- Andrew
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On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> >I am wondering if this make sense or i have to use another software to
> >make zones.
>
> You'll have to use more than one Interface to make atalkd seed. Use the
> dummy-interface for this. Please shorten your really too big footer.
>
> :wq! PoC
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