Subject: Re: zone router
From: Walt Reed (walt@mail.terrascope.com.criticalpath.net)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 19:54:20 EST
hate to reply to my own posts but i looked into it a bit more and saw
that your -router may route between appletalk networks on a single
interface, but i beleive you need something to "seed" the networks
(such as the CAP machine) before this will work. with multiple
interfaces (let's face it, you can get them for $15-$20 on an intel
box) and the -seed option i think your problems would disappear.
w
?hey chad,
i may be way off base here, but don't appletalk routers need to have
a separate interface for each zone? i used one back in the day that
routed between 2 floors (i believe it was a farallon pathfinder) and
you basically hooked one end to each network, or zone. all the
machines on each network had to physically reside in the same area.
does you old sun box have more than one ethernet card? i noticed
your linux box does not. if the sun has more than one ethernet card,
(or maybe not, since i don't know the capabilities of CAP) you should
look into getting some more for the linux box. besides, you'll get
better throughput.
w
>As far as I know, there are no other appletalk routers. Is there any way
>to scan for it? But when I shut down the netatalk or CAP server, the macs
>say appletalk is gone and register no zones, so I would think that would
>mean that there isn't another router running, right?
>
>This is very strange...
>
>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, alan premselaar wrote:
>
>> do you have any other appletalk routers on your network?
>>
>> when the macs see the zones in the chooser (after clicking on appleshare),
>> what zone(s) does the linux server show up in?
>>
>> more than likely you've got another appletalk router somewhere on your
>> network and it has conflicting zone information.
>>
>> alan
>>
>> At 1:12?? -0500 3.22.01, Chad Cunningham wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I had rebooted them, didn't do anything. I tried opening the appletalk
>> >control panel and switching the appletalk connection off of ethernet and
>> >then back. This gave me all the zones, but for some reason every computer
>> >was in every zone... Also, after about 2 minutes, the mac would lose all
>> >it's zones and say that the appletalk network has become unavailable...
>> >
>> >On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, alan premselaar wrote:
>> >
>> > > Chad,
>> > >
>> > > Once you make a change to your appletalk network like that, you'll
>> >need to
>> > > either a) reboot your macs, or b) open up the appletalk
>>control panel on
>> > > each of them... at which point it should tell you that your appletalk
>> > > network setting is no longer valid and re-probe the ethernet device for
>> > > zones, etc. In some cases, i've had to switch the appletalk from the
>> > > ethernet device to the printerport (or something else) and
>>back before it
>> > > would recognize the new zones.
>> > >
>> > > alan
>> > >
>> > > At 11:26?? -0500 3.22.01, Chad Cunningham wrote:
>> > > >Hi,
>> > > >
>> > > >I am trying to replace a Solaris box running CAP with a
>>linux box running
>> > > >netatalk. I can't seem to get zones to work properly under the new
>> > > >netatalk setup. My atalkd.conf looks like
>> > > >
>> > > >eth0 -router -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 257.249 -zone
>>"Staff" -zone "RTL"
>> > > >-zone "Faculty" -zone "EMPT" -zone "Public"
>> > > >
>> > > >It seems happy with this, the atalkd.conf doesn't get
>>overwritten when I
>> > > >start up and I can use getzones and they all show up.
>>However, none of the
>> > > >macs recognize any zones. Any idea why this might be?
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > >
>> > > >Chad Cunningham
>> > > >ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu
>> > > >
>> > > >"Well, once again my friend, we find that science is a two-headed
>> >beast. One
>> > > >head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern
>>conveniences,...but the
>> > > >other head of science is bad! Oh beware the other head of science,
>> >Arthur, it
>> > > >bites!"
>> > >
>> > > ----
>> > > there's nothing like the undying sense of reliability
>>provided by modern
>> > > technology.
>> > > ----
>> > > alan premselaar
>> > > alien@12inch.com
>> > > www.12inch.com
>> > >
>> >
>> >--
>> >
>> >Chad Cunningham
>> >ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu
>> >
>> >"Well, once again my friend, we find that science is a
>>two-headed beast. One
>> >head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences,...but the
>> >other head of science is bad! Oh beware the other head of
>>science, Arthur, it
>> >bites!"
>>
>> ----
>> there's nothing like the undying sense of reliability provided by modern
>> technology.
>> ----
>> alan premselaar
>> alien@12inch.com
>> www.12inch.com
>>
>
>--
>
>Chad Cunningham
>ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu
>
>"Well, once again my friend, we find that science is a two-headed beast. One
>head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences,...but the
>other head of science is bad! Oh beware the other head of science, Arthur, it
>bites!"
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