Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk services appear in only one zone (unmangled text this time)
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 25 1998 - 18:36:49 EST
Yes, afpd only registers itself in one zone. However you can multiple afpd
processes and register each one on a different zone. This will keep the
networking efficient.
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Netatalk is running on a FreeBSD box with two ethernet interfaces.
> One goes to a LAN in room 1 (zone "ROOM1"), the other interface
> goes to a LAN in room 2 (zone "ROOM2").
>
> There are no other LANs apart from "ROOM1" and "ROOM2". I do
> have a genuine Mac IP-5 fileserver that I also plan to connect to both
> zones with multi-homing, however. But it can't do routing, unlike
> netatalk :) . At the moment only one interface is up, to ROOM1.
>
> I have managed to set up atalkd.conf so that it seeds the zones with the
> names above, and routing between zones seems to work. Thus, a mac
> in "ROOM2" can see a mac in "ROOM1". So far so good.
>
> The trouble is, the netatalk services (AppleShare and Print Spooling) only
> seem to register in the first zone - "ROOM1". The chooser shows
> nothing to choose in zone "ROOM2", even when I am on a mac in "ROOM2".
>
> 1 Is this actually a big deal? I can connect a computer in ROOM2 to
> netatalk simply by selecting the zone "ROOM1" in the chooser. Will this
> cause computers in "ROOM2" slow down the LAN for computers in "ROOM1" ?
>
> 2 I must be missing something here! The netatalk FAQ-Matic alludes to
> this problem but gives no firm examples. They talk about a file called
> "rc.atalk" .
> Is this just the startup script called at boot time that Linux uses? (I use
> FreeBSD, not Linux, and my startup script is just called "netatalk.sh" .
>
> 3 Or perhaps netatalk services will only register in ONE zone? Is this
> so?
>
> Thanks in advance. Any working examples appreciated.
>
> Eddie.
>
>
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