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Re: introducing A2SERVER again, this time with Pi

On 04/30/2013 05:26 AM, Ivan X wrote:

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:50:52 AM UTC-4, oz390gta wrote:

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




With Netatalk routing active and my GatorBox also on the network nothing
would route between LocalTalk and Ethernet. As soon as I disabled routing
on the A2SERVER the routing between the two networks worked fine. On my
Gatorbox the LocalTalk network is set to 1 and it is set as a soft seed
port.


Based on what docs I've been able to find
(http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~pcfe/Gatorbox/), it sounds as though it
would also work if the Gatorbox were in non-seed mode, or powered on in
soft-seed mode with Netatalk already running, and its EtherTalk network
range were set from 1 through 1. But I didn't want to make that assumption,
and the only reason Netatalk runs in router mode anyway is to make Asante
and Dayna bridges work correctly with a IIgs. So I figured it's just as
easy to disable Netatalk router mode in A2SERVER if you've got a Gatorbox
doing that for you.
My Gatorbox was a gift from Marsha Jackson, who I assume set it up to cause minimal problems before sending it. I never really fooled around with the configuration.
Wonder whatever happened to Marsha? She did some great work, including reverse engineering the A2 boot protocol and patching the 2e logon program.