djh@cs.mu.oz.au (David Hornsby) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr4.054351.22161@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, Doug Morris writes: > A question. Can ru/cap communicate to macs over Ethertalk without a > router a.k.a. fastpath? This capability has been hinted about on > the network but I have yet to hear it explicitly stated. In article <Apr.8.12.27.44.1991.4412@khnphwzhn.njin.net>, Rakesh Patel writes: > NOTE: I have not tested this version in a routerless network, so I > am not sure it will work properly in such an environment. Is anyone > running CAP 6.0 in such an environment? I just tried CAP 6.0 using native ethertalk on an isolated subnet (no gateway to anywhere else) between a SUN 4 and a Mac II with EtherTalk. Getzones and atlook fail (naturally, as there isn't a gateway to send to) but atistest and aufs (and presumably also lwsrv printing via lpr (remote UNIX printing) to another LaserWriter) worked fine. The only potential trap is to make sure that there isn't an /etc/atalk.local file to seed bogus values into /etc/etalk.local. Details: /bin/rm /etc/etalk.local /usr/local/cap/aarpd ie0 azone /usr/local/cap/atis sleep 5 /usr/local/cap/aufs -n servername The zone name doesn't matter, you never get to see it but aarpd won't accept just one argument. It's probably worth noting that you can also do this with A/UX 2.0 using the native appletalk support. - David.