dd@ariel.unm.edu (dd) (04/09/90)
I have installed CAP - everything seemed to go OK, and atalkad -
again, everything looks OK. I put a couple of things in weird
places, but everything seems to find everything else.
We are running AppleTalk 1.0, with no immediate need to migrate to
AppleTalk 2.0. We have a large MAC-bridged, Ethernet-compliant
network operating throughout campus. It's not an Ethernet, but the
hosts et. al. can't determine that.
I have two "problems":
Problem 1:
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I want my KFPS4 to "backfeed" unencapsulated AppleTalk to it's
Ethernet port, essentially functioning as an AppleTalk-in-IP to
Appletalk gateway, for this brief test. Can it do that? I set up
atalkatab for that capability - is there anything else I need to
set up (KFPS4 options)? I minimally configure the KFPS4 from my
Mac, and it seems to get configuration data from atalkad correctly
- it says so, anyway.
Problem 2:
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Next problem is that I start atis(8) - sems to start ok, but
atistest(?) fails to register a name. Oh well, I think, I can
probably ignore that, and I fire up Aufs(1) - guess what? Aufs(1)
also cannot register a name. Guess I have a problem with atis(8).
I crank up the debugging level on atis(8): it can see my attempts
to run atistest(?) and Aufs(1), but I get
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atis: Sat Apr 7 15:45:10 1990 DEBUG LEVEL 7
atis: Sat Apr 7 15:45:37 1990 Got nbp 1 lkup from net 20.1, node 135, skt 2
atis: Sat Apr 7 15:45:37 1990 Looking for entities to answer a lookup with atis test:testing@CDCNATiIP
atis: Sat Apr 7 15:45:37 1990 look: start index 0 beyond range of table
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Is there anybody out there who has a similar situation and has
figured out the arcane nature of these problems? Have I failed to
read something important?
Thanks for your help. For complete reference, I have appended my
(very simple) atalk.local(5) and atalkatab(5)
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# atalk.local(5)
20.1 45 CDCNATiIP
20.1 135 129.24.8.135
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# Appletalk administration database table (atalkatab),
# read by appletalk admin daemon (atalkad).
#
# Appletalk number assignment algorithm:
# 0.X Ethernet cables, AppleTalk protocol ("EtherTalk")
# 10.X PhoneNet cables, AppleTalk protocol ("LocalTalk")
# 20.X Ethernet cables, AppleTalk-in-IP protocol ("ATiIP")
#
20.1 N1 129.24.15.0 CDCNATiIP
#
# LocalTalk networks, connected w/ Kinetics' KFPS4, defined below:
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Services
# - connectivity for the zone TEST
# - core gateway services
# - backfeed to the EtherTalk zone CDCN
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.1 E 129.24.8.135 CDCN #CDCN EtherTalk backfeed
10.1 KC 129.24.8.135 TEST #TEST LocalTalk
I129.24.15.255 I129.24.8.1 #broadcast, name_server
L0 L0 L0 L0 L0 L0 #ddt_server, file_server, other(4)
S0.1 #AppleTalk number: EtherTalk port
S0 LX0 #DDP_range, flags
S1 S1 #IP addresses: 1 static, 1 dynamic
S10.1 #AppleTalk number: LocalTalk port
S20.1 #AppleTalk number: ATiIP port
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Looking at this, I guess there is one other piece of knowledge
required: we subnet our class B network address with the subnet
mask 'fffff800', providing very few subnets of 2046 hosts each.
Thanks again!
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Don Doerner dd@ariel.unm.edu
University of New Mexico CIRT
2701 Campus Blvd, NE
Albuquerque, NM, 87131 (505) 277-8036