John Barry wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been having a bizzare problem with netatalk, which I originaly put down to
> the STREAMS kernel driver for Solaris. But having configured and complied every
> version of netatalk I could lay my hands on, (from the umich's original 1.33 to
> Adrian's latest bleeding edge ASIP release) all without success, I asked Grizz
> to send me copy of his install, it works on his, so it must work on mine, right?
>
> Wrong. Same error...
>
> So I'm thinking, "it can't be the driver, it must be atalkd." So throwing
> caution to the wind, I did a "make clean" on the distribution I got from Grizz
> and proceed to hack the source.
>
> By way of main.c in etc/atalkd I found my way to config.c, (the location of the
> plumb() function that was causing main.c to abort at runtime) I played a hunch,
> and changed:
>
> strcpy( device, "/dev/");
>
> in the plumb() funtion to:
>
> strcpy( device, "/dev/le" );
>
> This gave me the bizzare message "plumb: invalid device: /dev/lele" in
> /var/adm/messages
>
> So I changed plumb() again, this time to:
>
> strcpy( device, "/dev/le0" );
>
> Success! It sails through that part of the plumb() code and prints this to the
> screen:
>
> "Can't configure multicast."
>
> So, does anyone know how to configure /dev/le0 for multicast on Solaris 2.6?
> You can't do it with ifconfig, (according to the man page...)
>
> Anyone?
>
Try:
/usr/sbin/route add -interface -netmask 240.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 `hostname`
See man(1m) route for details.
Regards
/Johan
