Subject: Re: AppleTalk/EtherTalk in MOL - what works
From: Brice D Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 19:21:06 MDT
Sam,
Thanx - I appreciate the quick response. I like keeping my MacOS
settings similar to what they would be if I were to boot directly in
(since I do that at times) so having two net devices gets in the way of
that (since I have to reconfigure TCP/IP whenever I change environments.
Now that you mention that, though - I recall that I used to do that
when I was running YDL 1.2 - that was so long ago (months ;)) that I had
forgotten!
I think I'll try recompiling the ethertap interface soon ... thank you
for that info!
-Brice
Samuel Rydh wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:01:26PM -0500, Brice D Ruth wrote:
>
>>I've been using MOL for quite a while now, happily plugging along using
>>ethertap networking. I have a particular Photoshop plugin that exports
>>directly to my printer that I'd like to use (it prints more efficiently
>>and with more appropriate options). Unfortunately, the only way it can
>>pick up the printer is via AppleTalk ... and that doesn't work via
>>ethertap (though interestingly enough, its actually specifically
>>mentioned as working in the ethertap documentation ... how's that?)
>>
>
>To run AppleTalk on a tap device, you need to recompile the kernel/tap
>module with the line
>
>#define CONFIG_ETHERTAP_MC
>
>added to the linux/drivers/net/ethertap.c file. This will add
>multicast support to the tap interface which is needed by
>AppleTalk. You must also configure atalkd to route between
>tap0 and eth0 (tap0 will show up as a separate zone in your
>network).
>
>A simpler solution is configuring two network devices
>in MOL, something like:
>
> netdev: tap0
> netdev: eth0 -sheep
>
>MacOS should be configured to use the first ethernet
>device for IP and the second one for AppleTalk.
>
>Regards,
>
>/Samuel
>
>
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