Re: Newbie Problem with Netatalk


Subject: Re: Newbie Problem with Netatalk
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 16:19:45 MDT


Ahh, what this means is that you're on a system that has the gmac ethernet
interface (mainly iBooks or newer AGP G4s).

The ethernet driver does not have multicast support at this time, so atalk
won't work correctly. Ben H, the driver author claims to be working on
multicast.

> I am having the same problem using the kernel that is supplied.
> Atalkd won't fire up and when I modprobe appletalk and then try
> firing up the atalkd daemon, I get the same info about Can't configure
> multicast and eth0:disabled.atalk
>
> Did I miss something?

Regards,
Dan

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