Re: introducing A2SERVER again, this time with Pi

[Ivan X <ivan@ivanx.com>]

> Just curious: Why does the Gatorbox have an issue with routing being active? 
> 
> Or, am I misunderstanding your comment?

I don't think you are -- I suspect it came from my note at the bottom of http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/a2server_lan.html, where I suggest disabling Netatalk router mode if a Gatorbox is on the network and things don't seem to work.

I still have a pretty shaky grasp on how AppleTalk operates, and I don't have a Gatorbox to experiment with (my eBay saved search periodically turns up a Cayman Systems mug, but never an actual Gatorbox). But I observed that if you have two Netatalk servers in router mode, they both have to have matching network ranges, or one of them won't start up.

I assumed a Gatorbox, being an AppleTalk router, might cause Netatalk to do the same thing, so that's why I put that comment in; if there's already a router on the network, I figured Netatalk (which, in A2SERVER, is set to use network range 1-1) would possibly not start up.