Several questions for you all:
First, is there a good resource (online or otherwise) where a NetWare
admin and Linux newbie-admin can read up on Apple networking
structure? I need to understand how addresses are determined, arranged
and assigned.
Before I ask any more, let me describe the environment: Primarily a
NetWare shop (v4.11) at the moment, we have one Linux Mandrake 6.1
box. Most workstations are Win95/98, but we have two Macs still in
common use. The server which held most of the Mac material was an
aging Compaq SystemPro LT (486, 40M RAM) which is being forcibly
retired due to Y2K. I opted to move all the Mac files to Linux because
of the lower overhead, and anyone out there who's supporting AppleTalk
and Mac namespace on a NetWare box knows what I'm talking about. The
problem is that the older machine was the one that dictated the
addresses for the AppleTalk portion of the network. I want the Linux
machine to do that now. In the atalk.conf file, I placed this line:
eth0 -phase 2 -addr 5001.110 -net 5001-5003 -zone "Joiner"
which mirrored the setup from the old NetWare box. However, when I try
to start the service, the server reported that it could not register
the addresses. I removed the line, but it still failed, this time due
to the fact that the machine has two NICs, and one of the segments
does not have Appletalk running on it. So I placed just eth0 in the
atalkd.conf, and it worked, but with an address of 65280/70. How is it
arriving at that address, and why can't I stipulate the address range?
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