Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Solaris 2.6/FDDI problem
From: Stefan Bethke (stefan.bethke@hanse.de)
Date: Tue Jun 01 1999 - 21:01:51 EDT
Victoria Grace Landgraf <LandgrVi@mcmurdo.gov> wrote:
> All --
>
> I'm running netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 with Solaris 2.6 on an ultra 450
> with a SunFDDI/P adapter. Appleshare over IP works fine, but atalk does
> not. The most obvious symptoms are that the netatalk server does not
> appear in the chooser, and that nbp_rgstr reports 'Connection timed out'
> when it tries to start. An NT server running Mac file services on the
> same fddi ring does appear in choosers throughout the network (most of
> which is ethernet), so I doubt that it's a routing problem.
>
> When I start with just 'pf0' in atalkd.conf it gets filled in as
> pf0 -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 65280.62
I'm not totally sure, but Sun has a sad history of not supporting 802.3
frames properly in new NICs. They manage to botch it each time they
produce a new one (started with the OEMed FDDI adapters, and continued over
qfe and Gigabit adapters). Try to upgrade to the newest driver version if
possible.
Technical background: although FDDI uses 802.3 frames *exclusively*, the
kernel architecture for IP is (was?) made for Ethernet II frames only. Sun
made a sample driver for a FDDI card available to developers that patched
the frame from 802.3 to Ethernet II on receipt and vice versa on transmit.
Only problem in the sample code: they patched all frames, even non-IP,
valid 802.3 frames (such as AppleTalk uses).
On the other hand, it might be a totally unrelated problem. Have you tried
to run netatalk on the Ethernet interface?
Stefan
-- Stefan Bethke Muehlendamm 12 Phone: +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 D-22087 Hamburg <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> Hamburg, Germany <stb@freebsd.org>
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