Subject: Re: ddp/tcp connections (pre-39)
From: Matthew Geier (matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 00:55:52 EDT
Marcus Radich wrote:
>
> On 13/8/2000, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
>
> >
> >One thing I *HAVE* noticed is that a chooser initiated connection will
> >invariably default to slow AppleTalk connectivity. I need to proceed with
> >manual IP selection in order to get the faster IP connection.
>
> That is weird, I installed a new Netfinity server last week at a
> client site, and all machines mount the Server IP at startup.
> >Alias' made of an IP connection do reconnect as IP connections, but 'mount
> >automatically' does NOT properly remember the state of the last connection.
>
> It does. Check above.
Ive had the same problem, automounting on 8.6 made an AppleTalk
connection. In our case, making 'keyserver' use TCP/IP instead of
AppleTalk fixed it.
The machines concerned use DHCP for addressing, I assume the automount
driver doesn't wait long enough for the IP stack to initialize. By
forcing keyserver to use TCP/IP, it made the stack load befor the
automount function wanted it I assume.
I know when an AppleTalk connection is made, with out fail, less than 5
minutes later, the connection is dropped. 8.6 and later only make stable
connections over TCP/IP for me. AppleTalk connections ALWAYS drop out.
Os 7.x machine connect via AppleTalk fine. Ive tested this on a number
of different machines. All the same.
-- Matthew Geier matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au Arts IT Unit +61 2 9351 4713 Sydney University
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