Subject: bonded ethernet
From: Kevin Mullican (kevinmullican@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 14:48:16 EDT
Greetings all,
I apologize if this is a complete rehash, but I just joined the list.
I am attempting to integrate a new Linux machine into an existing Macintosh
environment. All the Macs are G4s with OS 9.1 or 9.2. I have another Linux
box acting as an appletalk router (assigning zones, etc) on the same
network, and it is functioning properly. The physical topology is 2 separate
macintosh networks (administrative and production) with the old Linux
machine as the router. I want the new machine to participate in the
appletalk network as a fileserver.
The new Linux machine is a dual PIII running a nearly generic install of
RedHat 7.1 with a 2.4.3-12 smp kernel and netatalk-1.5pre2-6. Installed are
2 3com 3c996 Gigabit ethernet adapters in the machine, which are actually
Broadcom 5700 chipsets. Linux will only run the bcm5700 module as a kernel
loadable module. When configured as individual adapters, appletalk performs
fine. When I bond the two adapters together, appletalk fails to properly
configure the newly bonded interface. Otherwise, the bonded interface is
working properly. Although I can attach to the server as an IP client, NBP
is not working. Also, I am unable to resolve any Zone information on the
bonded port. My best guess is a multicasting problem. I know ZIP info is on
an odd broadcast address, and I am assuming it is not properly implemented
in the bonding driver.
Before I started hacking, I wanted to see if anyone else had run into this
problem.
Thanks,
Kevin Mullican
The Mullican Group
mailto:kevin@mullican.com
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