Subject: atalkd fails to communicate with existing router
From: Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 19:29:03 EST
Hi folks,
I'm sure this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything about
it after some digging in the archives. I'm trying to bring up netatalk
on LinuxPPC 2000-Q4 (kernel 2.2.18, netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-7 RPM).
It's running on a Powerbook G3 (Pismo) which is connected via an Apple
AirPort card to a local Ethernet LAN (the AirPort base station is
running AirPort 1.2 if that matters). Also attached to the LAN is a
Netopia 435 ISDN router, which has both LAN and PhoneNet ports; the
Netopia acts as a seeding router for the AppleTalk network. Or it's
supposed to, anyway. This all works great when I boot MacOS on the
Powerbook, but atalkd does not seem to manage to communicate with the
Netopia. Here are the relevant /var/log/messages entries:
Feb 5 18:57:41 g3 kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0
Feb 5 18:57:41 g3 atalkd[652]: restart (1.4b2+asun2.1.3)
Feb 5 18:57:42 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:57:48 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:08 g3 last message repeated 4 times
Feb 5 18:58:11 g3 atalkd[652]: config for no router
Feb 5 18:58:12 g3 atalkd[652]: ready 0/0/0
Feb 5 18:58:12 g3 atalk: atalkd startup succeeded
Feb 5 18:58:18 g3 atalkd[652]: rtmp_packet router has become available
Feb 5 18:58:18 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:21 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:26 g3 atalk: afpd startup succeeded
Feb 5 18:58:28 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:31 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:36 g3 afpd[794]: Can't register g3:AFPServer@*
Feb 5 18:58:36 g3 afpd[794]: ASIP started on 192.168.168.12:548(0) (1.4b2+asun2.1.3)
[ yes, 192.168.168.12 is the IP address assigned to the Powerbook ]
Feb 5 18:58:38 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:41 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:48 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:58:51 g3 atalkd[652]: config for no router
Feb 5 18:58:58 g3 atalkd[652]: rtmp_packet router has become available
Feb 5 18:58:58 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:59:28 g3 last message repeated 6 times
Feb 5 18:59:31 g3 atalkd[652]: config for no router
Feb 5 18:59:38 g3 atalkd[652]: rtmp_packet router has become available
Feb 5 18:59:38 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 18:59:51 g3 last message repeated 3 times
Feb 5 18:59:58 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 19:00:08 g3 last message repeated 2 times
Feb 5 19:00:11 g3 atalkd[652]: config for no router
Feb 5 19:00:18 g3 atalkd[652]: rtmp_packet router has become available
Feb 5 19:00:18 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
Feb 5 19:00:48 g3 last message repeated 6 times
Feb 5 19:00:51 g3 atalkd[652]: config for no router
Feb 5 19:00:58 g3 atalkd[652]: rtmp_packet router has become available
Feb 5 19:00:58 g3 atalkd[652]: zip_getnetinfo for airport
... etc etc in an endless loop ...
It looks to me like atalkd may be hearing the RTMP packets that the
Netopia broadcasts (what else would cause it to repeat the configuration
cycle like that?) but it doesn't manage to acquire the correct network
numbers. The actual configuration of the Appletalk network, as shown by
CheckNet when the Powerbook is booted into MacOS, is:
CheckNET 6:55 PM 2/5/01 Device List Number of entries = 8
Name Type Zone Net Node Skt Enum
192.168.168.2 IPGATEWAY AppleTalk 36332 149 72 1
AccelaWriter 8100 LaserWriter AppleTalk 36332 130 128 0
G3 ARA - Personal Server AppleTalk 257 132 2 0
G3 Workstation AppleTalk 257 132 4 0
G3 Multi-User Client AppleTalk 257 132 48 0
G3 EPSON IJ Notification AppleTalk 257 132 250 0
G3 Power Macintosh AppleTalk 257 132 252 0
Netopia 455-U #26358 Netopia Router AppleTalk 257 150 100 1
but atalkd doesn't see these network numbers; what it selects and writes
into atalkd.conf is
airport -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 65280.15
None of the basic lookup/troubleshooting tools seem to work; for example
getzones just sits for about ten seconds and says
atp_rresp: Connection timed out
And, as you can see from the log messages, registering NBP names
doesn't work, nor does looking them up.
BTW, regular TCP across the airport card works fine. I can even 'ping'
the Netopia from the Powerbook. It's just Appletalk over IP that's
busted.
It's probably some stupid configuration error on my part, but I'm stuck.
Any ideas?
regards, tom lane
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