>> A couple weeks ago we got a cable modem and I set the server up with two
>> Ethernet cards to act as our router. NetAtalk at first wouldn't bind to the
>> LAN card. I modified the appropriate conf file, and all was well... or so I
>> thought. After setting NetATalk to use only eth0, my graphic designer
>> informed me that he was able to mount AppleTalk shares from his house via
>> his ISP - over the WAN link on eht1!! My atalkd.conf file reads as
>> eth0 -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 65280.185
>>
>> Do I need to modify afpd.conf to make my server only listen on the local
>> Ethernet port? I am running Netatalk 1.4b on RedHat 6.1.
>
> It is unlikely that the Appletalk (DDP) packets are being routed to your
> graphic designer, so he is probably connecting by TCP/IP. You can force
> afpd to only listen to a particular IP address (in your case, the address
> assigned to your local ethernet card) by setting "-ipaddr w.x.y.z" in the
> afpd.conf file. Have a look at the afpd.conf file for some examples and
> documentation.
Ah. Neat. But the example in the file shows "-address w.x.y.z" Is that the
same as -ipaddr, are they different, or is one of these a typo?
Thanks!
Peter
