Subject: Re: Netatalk up but invisible to Macs
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 12:14:39 EDT
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Matthew Reilly wrote:
> Thanks Jason,
>
> Yes, I can ping the Macs from the server but I cannot access the
> Appletalk volume via the IP address from the Macs. I don't have
> Appletalk IP enabled on the server (no afpd.conf).
>
> I just can't understand why it worked before but now won't work
> with the new NIC.
I don't know if there are similar problems on the Powermac platform, but
there are some network cards which don't work well with appletalk. The
network card needs to have multicast support. Sometimes you can make it
work by putting the network card into promiscuous mode. Just a thought...
Andy
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