[netatalk-admins] Routing between LocalTalk and EtherTalk

Subject: [netatalk-admins] Routing between LocalTalk and EtherTalk
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Thu Mar 05 1998 - 13:39:08 EST

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Hi,

I've a known issue of a routing failure between LocalTalk and EtherTalk:

>From EtherTalk, I can see all LocalTalk devices, but there's no real data exchange, I get timeout-messages indicating this if I will print to a printer or make an afp connection to a FileSharing machine.
>From LocalTalk I cannot see any device on EtherTalk.

I use the LocalTalk driver from Bradford W. Johnson <bradford@MATH.UMN.EDU> which works well now. Communications between the Linux Box and LocalTalk devices work very fine!

A few lines to my setup:

leela:/root # cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.33 (root@dx4.pingnet.de) (gcc version 2.7.2) #5 Sun Feb 1 11:56:24 MET 1998

leela:/root # cat /usr/local/etc/atalkd.conf
eth0 -seed -phase 2 -net 13-20 -addr 19.1 -zone "Ether"
ltalk0 -seed -phase 1 -net 21 -addr 21.1 -zone "Local"

leela:/root # nbplkup
                      QMS-Spool:LaserWriter 21.1:129
                          leela:AFPServer 21.1:130
                 Laser bei Nebe:LaserWriter 21.1:128
                          leela:netatalk 21.1:4
                          leela:Workstation 21.1:4
                       powermac: Power Macintosh 16.1:252
                       powermac:Workstation 16.1:4
leela:/root # nbplkup @Local
                     QMS-PS 410:LaserWriter 21.176:128

leela:/root # cat /proc/net/atalk_iface
Interface Address Networks Status
ltalk0 0015:01 0015-0015 0
eth0 0013:01 000D-0014 0
lo 0000:00 0000-0000 0

leela:/root # cat /proc/net/atalk_route
Target Router Flags Dev
0015:01 0000:00 5 lo
0015:00 0015:01 1 ltalk0
0013:01 0000:00 5 lo
0014:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0013:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0012:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0011:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0010:00 0013:01 1 eth0
000F:00 0013:01 1 eth0
000E:00 0013:01 1 eth0
000D:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0000:00 0000:00 5 lo

I do now know much about AppleTalk routing, but why will 15:01 go via lo?
I shut down lo to correct the routes:

leela:/root # cat /proc/net/atalk_route
Target Router Flags Dev
0015:00 0015:01 1 ltalk0
0014:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0013:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0012:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0011:00 0013:01 1 eth0
0010:00 0013:01 1 eth0
000F:00 0013:01 1 eth0
000E:00 0013:01 1 eth0
000D:00 0013:01 1 eth0

But I cannot send data to LocalTalk devices.

Who can help me? I worked around this with printing over a papd-spooler, but this is not possible with HP DeskWriter.

:wq! PoC

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