Subject: MOL, Appletalk, and laptops
From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick (rafial@well.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 01:18:53 MDT
First, let me congratulate the MOL team on an excellent job. I was
able to get MOL running on my TiBook in only a few hours, following
the directions in the user guide, and some posts from the archives to
get iptables routing my Linux networking to MacOS. Runs like a champ.
Now for the question: I'm doing tun0 for TCP/IP networking, and eth0
for AppleTalk, and I've got netatalk running on the linux side to
share my linux files with MacOS. Only problem is, this only works
when the laptop is actually plugged in to the network. If I unplug
it, appletalk fails.
So I though I'd try setting up my Appletalk networking via the
loopback device (lo) since when I ifconfig it, it shows an Ethertalk
address and all, but when I add netdev: lo -sheep to my molrc, on
boot MOL says it can't open lo.
Is is possible to get Appletalk networking (for purposes of file
sharing between OSes) working even when the laptop is not plugged in?
I searched the archives, and found someone else who mentioned this
problem, but I couldn't find a followup with a solution.
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