Re: ProDOS, OS X and Netatalk

[Geoff Body <gbody4@bigpond.com>]

Steve,
I have been talking with Tony who was kind enough to send a network
capture which shows the packets from the Ethernet card in the IIgs
being incorrectly formed with the length field being 14 bytes longer
than it should.
The 14 bytes being the source and destination mac address  6 bytes
each + 2 byte length field, the first 14 bytes of the packet which
should be excluded from the length.

Linux was not responding to these packets, so it would appear to be
discarding these packets as faulty.

The main change was that Phase 2 allowed a range of network addresses
instead of a single network address to be allocated to a network
allowing more than 253 to be on the network at once.
Phase 2 also saw the introduction of Tokentalk.

Zones existed prior to Phase 2.

I don't think bridges are required to have zones as they make the
device appear as if it is on the other side of the bridge. and there
might not be a router on the other side of the bridge to provide the
zone or network address information.
I haven't played with bridges and that is one of the reasons I was
asking if a network capture could be provided.
It may help me to modify Linux appletalk/netatalk to support these
types of devices.

Geoff