Subject: Re: MOL, Appletalk, and laptops
samuel@ibrium.se
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 06:01:31 MDT
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:14:32AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Check out the AppleTalk control panel in MacOS. It should offer a
> selection of two different ethernet devices - one maps to tun0 on the
> Linux side, the other to eth0. Selecting the one corresponding to
> tun0 should allow you to use AppleTalk no matter what the state of the
> external connection is.
>
> If you use AppleTalk solely for accessing the Linux side of your
> laptop from the MacOS side, you'll be fine if you just remove the eth0
> device from /etc/molrc. Otherwise, you may want to shortcut the
> switch using the location manager.
>
One problem here is that tun0 is not seen by netatalk
(since the tun interface is created when MOL starts).
Possibly one could start netatalk from the
/usr/lib/mol/bin/tunconfig script.
There might also be a multicast issue with tun0 (as with
the tap device). I don't know for sure.
Cheers,
/Samuel
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