Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Multi-zone routing
From: Julian Elischer (julian@whistle.com)
Date: Wed Mar 04 1998 - 20:56:52 EST
Hans Gerwitz wrote:
>
> Please read patiently, I don't want to leave anything out:
>
> Said another way: NBP registration for seeded networks does not reliably
> broadcast to the non-seed backbone, but is reliable on that and other
> seeded nets.
>
> Finally, some possibly relevant information. I am getting frequent
> syslog errors from atalkd that read:
> "rhrouter atalkd[160]: as_timer sendto: Network is unreachable"
>
> These come in spurts of about 6 every 20 minutes or so.
>
> As I write this, I just received a number of these messages from atalkd:
> "rhrouter atalkd[160]: nbp brrq sendto 22921.0: No buffer space available"
>
> There were many of these, each for a different network number (all to the
> .0 broadcast), but not one for every network number on our net. I should
> note that our AppleTalk network here is a mess, with many, many Novell
> servers that have been improperly set up to seed the backbone, and to
> define zones, even though they do not have subnets (some of these had
> subnets that have been removed, most were simply copied from existing
> misconfigured servers from admin that don't know any better.) The router
> I've described, though, is the only one experiencing this problem, and
> the Novell-based one it replaced did not experience this, using the same
> network numbers in the same location.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I did the kernel port of the netatalk stack.
Unfortunatly we don;t have a sufficiently comprehensive atalk network
here however for me to test some of the more complicated scenarios.
Some part that I think may be broken...
1/ handling some loopback situations
2/ handling some broadcast situations.
don;t know enough about the higher level protocols to be
able to guess what is wrong and am hoping that people such as
yourself will be able to give mem good descriptions of what is not
If I can get good descriptions,
e.g. "loopback packets to my own atalk address do not get back to me"
tehn I can fix them (this was actually the case in 2.2.5 without the
patches in the 2.2.5 erratum page).
you DID apply those patches to 2.2.5 right?
julian
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