On 2/21/02 at 5:11 PM, Scott Sandeman-Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience routing/filtering/firewalling any of > these protocoals? > > Any suggestions where a guy might find some documentation? Notes? > > I did a search on Leaf and didn't find much. You might want to look at netatalk, which is the AppleTalk server for Linux. If nothing else, it will give you pointers to AppleTalk related information. Also, to have the capability to encapsulate AppleTalk in IP (or vice versa) you need to enable those modules in the Linux kernel. This will allow your Linux kernel to encapsulate and decapsulate - so your Macs could just keep on spitting out AppleTalk. Of course, if the Mac is already spitting out IP, then you should be okay - you just need to know what the ports are. Be aware that AppleTalk is "chatty" - there are a lot of broadcasts and "looking for" anything interesting... so if you are using a dialup or some form of connection that charges by the kilobyte, you might want to be wary. If you want to do firewalling on AppleTalk, as far as I know Linux won't do it - because Linux firewalls IP and UDP. You could, I suppose, firewall and filter based on packet contents if you knew enough, but... I don't know if Linux could be an AppleTalk router... Best thing to do is, as you probably are already aware, to encapsulate AppleTalk in IP. You would need an AppleTalk-over-IP encapsulator/decapsulator at each end, and kernel support for AppleTalk and for AppleTalk-over-IP. Does this help? _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
