Subject: [netatalk-admins] NBP Lookup problems
From: Andrew Solmssen (solmssen@ca.metsci.com)
Date: Fri Nov 28 1997 - 16:52:50 EST
I'm having a similar problem - I have a Red Hat 4.2 machine with netatalk
1.4b2 with the umich patches.The nbplkup program shows only those names
registered by the linux box, but I can see and login to the afpd server
just fine from the macs. Pap seems unable to find an appletalk printer in
the local zone. I have a 3C905 with 0.46B vortex driver from Donald
Becker. I can do an nbplkup on the mac with interpoll or trawl and see
the linux box, but the linux box can't see anyone else. I'm going to try
moving to the larger net range that solved my problem before - here's my
current atalkd.conf:
eth0 -phase 2 -net 10000 -addr 10000.141 -zone "San Diego ET"
---- Andrew
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jeff Wiegley wrote:
> Nicolai Langfeldt wrote:
> >
> > Jeff Wiegley <jeff@w3-design.com> tastet:
> > > The company I worked with went with an Intel/Linux platform for all
> > > our file sharing plans and we haven't looked back. We've been running
> > > problem free for 14 days now. Haven't had to reboot the machine or
> > > restart the file sharing servers netatalk or samba except to add
> > > printers.
> > ...
> > > Don't bet on the DEC tulip cards. They are *great* cards and they
> > > seem to work perfectly *except* with netatalk. Even Donald Beckers
> > > newest tulip drivers do not seem to work correctly with netatalk
> > ...
> >
> > This is ...interesting.
> >
> > I'm running netatalk on a machine with a 21140 card at 10Mbps. Works
> > great. Stock 2.0.31 kernel at the moment (_no_ patches).
> >
> > Is it at 100Mbps it breaks down?
> >
> > Another interesting thing, People using boomerang (3com 10/100) cards
> > should be cautious about using the new 'unified' 3com driver.
> >
> > If my box breaks at 100Mbps I'm going to try Intel Etherexpress Pro.
> > It appears it has the potential to be faster than tulips due to
> > alignment flexibility (apparently the typical packet payload start
> > can be aligned to 4byte boundrary, instead of the header which the
> > tulip dictates)
> >
> > Nicolai
>
> No, mine breaks at 10Mbps we don't have any 100Mbps capable routers
> around here :-(
>
> Well, As I said, it doesn't really "break" like the 3Com cards do.
> The network still seems to run perfectly, no errors fast response.
> its just that netatalk isn't able to see any other appletalk devices
> except those registered by the netatalk server itself. (nbplkup only
> shows the netatalk server objects and nothing else)
>
> but unix networking and samba run fine.
>
> - Jeff
>
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