Subject: Re: nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out?
From: Donald Lee (donlee_68k@icompute.com)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 21:00:53 EDT
There is a very recent fix in the NetBSD 1.4.2+ source where the network
interface selection was broken. (in sys/net/if.c at about line 220)
If the linus/redhat distribution is close to the NetBSD 1.4.2
distribution, this sounds pretty familiar...
-dgl-
At 6:46 PM -0500 4/26/00, David Blache wrote:
>on 4/26/2000 10:26 AM, David Lancaster at c4ng2@unb.ca wrote:
>
>> This may be off base (correct me if I'm wrong guys), but it sounds like you
>> have AFPD working fine over afpovertcp, just no AppleTalk. I'm assuming
>> that somebody had you check that you had the correct entries in
>> /etc/services for AppleTalk and all the normal setup.
>
>I'm going to go over the installation and setup procedures again to se if I
>missed something.
>
>> I wonder if it's related to your network card. The first time I setup
>> netatalk, it worked fine, but I then swapped my 3Com 509b with an older SMC
>> WD8013 card, which then broke AppleTalk. (dunno if it affected afpovertcp,
>> as I was only using AppleTalk with my Laser IIg). Putting the 3Com card
>> back in worked, so I believe it had something to do with the capabilities of
>> the card. (I vaguely recall something about the card having to support a
>> promiscuous mode or something to work right with Atalk.....obviously I need
>> less volatile memory. :)
>
>But I can connect just fine using TCP/IP. And this was working before on
>the same network card. So it's gotta be software-related.
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