Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Using Netatalk as a Router
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Fri May 01 1998 - 16:34:48 EDT
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Andras Kadinger wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote:
>
> > So, if I want afpd to seed a single cable with two zone names,
> > do I need two cards? Do I need one card?
>
> It is irrelevant, how many network interfaces You have. The only relevant
> point is, that You have to specify -seed for atalkd, to make it 'seed' the
> network with zone information. This 'seeding' makes Macs switch to 'zoned
> networking' (dialog box popping up, saying 'Youe AppleTalk network is now
> available.').
With Netatalk, it's not irrelevant. atalkd will only seed if there are two
or more interfaces.
You can change atalkd, though, to let it seed w/ just one interface. :-)
Take care,
Bill
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