Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Using Netatalk as a Router
From: William LeFebvre (wnl@groupsys.com)
Date: Sun May 03 1998 - 01:11:58 EDT
bsmith wrote:
> >Your example is correct (but no need for any extra options in place of the
> >?-s). Like this:
> >
> >eth0 -seed -phase 2 -net 10 -addr 10.10 -zone "Appletree" -zone "Twilight"
>
>
> Sorry to disagree, but in my experience atalkd does not work like this. I als
o
> have a small network with no routers and no zones. I attempted to do exactly
> what you describe, but I could not make it work. Every time atalkd started u
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> it over-wrote atalkd.conf and removed the "-zone" options, even though I had
> included "-seed".....
As someone explained earlier on this list, atalkd will ignore -seed
and all the network settings if there is only one interface on the box.
The designers must have followed the obvious maxim: if you only have
one interface then you can't be a router.
William LeFebvre
Group sys Consulting
<wnl@groupsys.com>
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