On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Peter C. Nikolaidis wrote:
> >> 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?
Hmmm... It probably depends on which version of netatalk you are using.
I grabbed that from the pre-asun2.1.4-37b source code. It may be a
different keyword for the asun2.1.3 version. I'd go with "-address" if
that is what your config file says.
Andy
