Re: MOL, Appletalk, and laptops


Subject: Re: MOL, Appletalk, and laptops
From: Derrik Pates (dpates@dsdk12.net)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 21:16:44 MDT


On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote:

> I successfully configured a dummy0 device, but when starting
> netatalk, first it reported "dummy0: may have trouble with multicast"
> and then atalkd failed to bind to it, claiming it couldn't register
> the workstation name. So it seems there is some extra trick involved
> here to get Appletalk running on dummy0. Thoughts?

I've not seen the former message, but on the dummy0 interface, you'll have
to add the '-seed' option to make atalkd seed the AppleTalk zone by
itself.

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