Subject: Re: Some Minor Troubles w/netatalk 1.5pre3
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 01:28:59 EST
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tara Piorkowski wrote:
> on 12/29/00 4:29 PM, andrew morgan at morgan@orst.edu wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> Thanks for your response, Andy. Unfortunately, no, it didn't work for me.
> Here's the appropriate log snippets...
>
> Dec 8 00:26:15 tarasrv kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> Dec 8 00:26:21 tarasrv atalkd[666]: restart (1.5)
> Dec 8 00:26:21 tarasrv atalkd: eth0: multicast may not work correctly.
> Dec 8 00:26:31 tarasrv atalkd[666]: ready 0/0/0
> Dec 8 00:26:31 tarasrv rc.atalk: atalkd startup succeeded
> Dec 8 00:26:31 tarasrv atalkd[666]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Dec 8 00:26:41 tarasrv atalkd[666]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Dec 8 00:26:43 tarasrv rc.atalk: timelord startup succeeded
> Dec 8 00:26:43 tarasrv rc.atalk: afpd startup succeeded
> Dec 8 00:26:49 tarasrv timelord[677]: tarasrv:TimeLord started
> Dec 8 00:26:49 tarasrv afpd[686]: Okte Intranet Server:AFPServer@* started
> on 65280.132:130 (1.5)
> Dec 8 00:26:49 tarasrv afpd[686]: ASIP started on x.x.x.x:548(1) (1.5)
> Dec 8 00:26:49 tarasrv afpd[686]: uam: uams_randnum.so loaded
> Dec 8 00:26:49 tarasrv afpd[686]: uam: "2-Way Randnum exchange" available
> Dec 8 00:26:49 tarasrv afpd[686]: uam: "Randnum exchange" available
> Dec 8 00:26:51 tarasrv atalkd[666]: zip_getnetinfo for eth0
> Dec 8 00:27:01 tarasrv atalkd[666]: config for no router
>
> Do you have any other thoughts that might help?
Hmmm, I don't have any sure-fire ideas, but I have heard that appletalk is
broken in some versions of the kernel. I haven't experienced this myself
though. It is probably worth a try upgrading to the latest stable kernel
(2.2.18). This may also give you an updated driver for your TLAN card.
Andy
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