Subject: Re: Multiple NICs
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 18:39:05 EST
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Jason Powell wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am still trying (and failing miserably) to get Netatalk working with 2
> nics.
>
> here's what /var/log/messages says after a 'atalk start':
>
> Feb 11 17:49:10 lauren kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0
> Feb 11 17:49:11 lauren atalkd[20045]: restart (1.4b2+asun2.1.3)
> Feb 11 17:49:21 lauren atalkd[20045]: ready 0/0/0
> Feb 11 17:49:21 lauren atalk: atalkd startup succeeded
> Feb 11 17:49:21 lauren atalkd[20045]: setifaddr: eth1: Address already
> in use
> Feb 11 17:49:21 lauren papd[20050]: restart (1.4b2+asun2.1.3)
> Feb 11 17:49:21 lauren afpd[20052]: main: atp_open: Cannot assign
> requested address
> Feb 11 17:49:21 lauren afpd[20052]: ASIP started on 192.168.1.1:548(0)
> (1.4b2+asun2.1.3)
>
> I guessed the 'setifaddr' line was coming up because another machine was
> using the address I was trying to assign to atalkd. So, I shut down all
> the macs and turned off my Axis print server, and it still comes up.
>
> Finally, here's what atalk.conf looks like -before- 'atalk start':
> eth1 -router -phase 2 -net 2000 -addr 2000.10 -zone NewNet
> eth0 -router -phase 2 -net 1000 -addr 1000.10 -zone OldNet
>
> Here's what atalk.conf looks like -after- 'atalk start':
> eth1 -router -phase 2 -net 2000 -addr 2000.10
> eth0 -router -phase 2 -net 1000 -addr 0.0
>
> Should it be overwriting it?
It will overwrite the file if it can't use the settings you provided.
However, I think you should be using -seed instead of -router on both
lines above. The docs say -router is for single-interface routing, but
you have two interfaces...
Andy
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