Re: Netatalk inconsistencies wired vs. wireless.

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Jun 22, 12:10 am, A2Aviator <a2avia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An update:
>
> The issue has been resolved, though some more testing remains for
> knowledge purposes and completion, everything works.
>
> I'll be putting together an updated primer on netatalk and the Apple
> II sometime soon. Although a good majority of what I had to deal with
> was related to EtherTalk and there's only so few out there that would
> ever run into the same kind of problem, suffice to say that if you
> have a gigabit server, there are some differences that will have to be
> dealt with, and the way it was done this time was a modification to
> the A2 Ethernet Card ROM.
>
> The old tricks of sliding a 10Base-T hub, 10/100 switch or such - into
> the mix did not matter here. However a wireless bridge anywhere in the
> linkup did fix the problem and that was the clue.
>
> A ROM update will eventually be made available somehow, it's not that
> simple as each card needs a unique ROM since the MAC address is stored
> within. Though the odds of them being in the same subnet is probably
> pretty rare .. still. It's the right way to do things. I'd need to
> have the MAC address and make a ROM for it specifically.

Alternately, what about a utility (either on a web page, or a Mac/
Windows/Linux tool) that generates a ROM from a MAC address?