Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2 - IP works, eth ertalk doesn't?
From: Hannu Krosing (hannu@trust.ee)
Date: Tue May 26 1998 - 11:47:41 EDT
Sean Page wrote:
>
> Hi, Andras,
>
> No, there are no other routers, it is a very small test network
> consisting of only the FreeBSD server (sitting between the Appletalk
> network on ethernet and the Internet) and one mac workstation running OS
> 8. Both of them are on the same hub on the inside network. It's very
> strange. Even when I use the -seed option, the Mac can't see the server
> in the chooser.
>
> Tried making the atalkd.conf file read only (great suggestion by the
> way!), but that didn't work either. I also tried manually changing the
> net address on the mac to be the same as the server (different node, of
> course) and that also didn't help. I'm starting to think there is
> something more fundamentally wrong. Any more suggestions?
AFAIK there is no protocol for server advertizing that works over IP, so
you can see only these machines in the chooser that advertize using
ethertalk, not IP.
To use ethertalk, you must have appletalk support in your OS.
I'm not sure that this is the case for FreeBSD, at least not default
Hannu
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