Re: Some Minor Troubles w/netatalk 1.5pre3


Subject: Re: Some Minor Troubles w/netatalk 1.5pre3
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 16:29:42 EST


On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tara Piorkowski wrote:

> 2. This is the one that's really bugging me -- it existed in
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.4pre39, too. Basically I cannot get anything to come
> up in the Chooser of my MacOS 8.6 client after the server started. I have
> left atalkd.conf empty. Upon starting atalkd, the following gets dumped to
> the logs...
>
> Dec 29 15:53:19 tarasrv atalkd: eth0: multicast may not work correctly.
> Dec 29 15:53:29 tarasrv atalkd[28812]: ready 0/0/0
> Dec 29 15:53:29 tarasrv rc.atalk: atalkd startup succeeded
> Dec 29 15:53:29 tarasrv atalkd[28812]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Dec 29 15:53:39 tarasrv atalkd[28812]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Dec 29 15:53:49 tarasrv atalkd[28812]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Dec 29 15:53:59 tarasrv atalkd[28812]: config for no router
>
> As noted above, I'm using the TLAN driver, as detailed below...
>
> TLAN 1.3c: eth0 irq=15 io=2c20, Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP,
> Rev. 16
>
> Assuming that the problem was related to multicast problems I checked Adrian
> Sun's README.ASUN, which talks about certain NICs having multicast problems,
> but didn't see a reference to this device.
>
> Question: Are there known problems between this device and netatalk? Are
> there workarounds? Am I doing something else wrong?
>
> I appreciate any help any of you can give me as I'd very much like to have
> this server finished and up and running. Thanks in advance.

Does it work if you put the interface into promiscuous mode by running
'/sbin/ifconfig eth0 promisc'?

        Andy



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