Subject: Re: AppleTalk/EtherTalk in MOL - what works
From: Brice D Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 09:56:01 MDT
OK - it appears that running AppleTalk over an AirPort device is
somewhat challenging ... the device is configured just fine, multicast
support is enabled, and atalkd starts w/o any complaints that I can
detect. However, nbplkup shows only the entries from atalkd and from
MacOS 9.1 (running via sheep_net).
Here's what my ifconfig shows:
_*eth1*_
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:65:11:BF:29
inet addr:10.0.0.11 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
EtherTalk Phase 2 addr:65280/172
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:50848 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12622 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
RX bytes:7607938 (7.2 Mb) TX bytes:2289718 (2.1 Mb)
and here's what my iwconfig shows:
_*eth1*_
IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"webprojkt" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Frequency:2.462GHz Sensitivity:2/3 Mode:Managed
Access Point: 00:02:2D:01:CE:9F
Bit Rate=5.5Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link quality:28/92 Signal level:-70 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
Besides my piss poor link quality, does anyone see anything going on
here? Does the airport->orinoco->hermes driver just not support
AppleTalk properly? Are there any solutions?
Thank you for all your help so far! Hopefully I'll be able to get to
the bottom of this soon.
With warm regards,
Brice Ruth
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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