Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Networkproblems :-(
From: William LeFebvre (wnl@groupsys.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 12:31:02 EST
You wrote:
> We run a little LAN wich is chopped into chunks of 10base2 Ethernet. The
> chunks are connecte via a router.
>
> Router: ATI CentreCOM 3008SL IEE802.3 8 Port Repeater
> (+ ATI CentreCOM 210ST TwistedPair-Transceiver)
I hate to be nitpicky, but that is not a router. That's a repeater.
There is a difference (a very big difference).
> Problem: Netatalk runs fine, but it cannot find the other MACs on the
> net (nbplkup) and vice versa the Macs cannot find the Sun.
> The MACs, though they are on different chunks, find the each other
> without any problems.
>
> Has someone a suggestion where the problem could be?
Are there any IP devices on any of the 10-base-2 segments? Can they
see the Sun? Or to put it another way, is that AUI port on the
repeater working correctly? Did you use a conventional AUI cable to
connect the sun to the repeater? The lone AUI port has me suspicious:
are you sure it is supposed to be used for a host connection and not
as a link in to another repeater?
If you have some sort of connectivity between the thinnet segments and
the Sun, then it is strictly an Appletalk problem. So that's what I
would test next.
Alternatively, 10-base-2 transceivers are pretty cheap. See if you
can buy, beg, borrow, or steal one and get the Sun hooked in to one of
the 10-base-2 segments. Then see if your problems go away.
William LeFebvre
Group sys Consulting
<wnl@groupsys.com>
+1 770 813 3224
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