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Re: AppleTalk and Netatalk redeux
glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
David Schmenk wrote:
Dragging this dead horse back to beat it. I scored a Gatorbox on ePay,
Just wondering, how much are they going for now? I bought some about
10 years ago for a school networking project. I think I got them for
a few dollars, plus shipping. At the time, the software was available
on the web, if I remember right along with the passwords to make it work.
I picked it up for $30+shipping. Not great, but they seem to be hard to
get ahold of anymore.
(snip)
> The AsanteTalk simply passes packets from one net to the other.
> It is somewhat transparent.
Only somewhat. You can't pass all the EtherTalk traffic to
LocalTalk. What it does is closer to finding out which
hosts are on the LocalTalk side, and pretending to be those
hosts on EtherTalk, then passing the appropriate data through.
I believe there are limits on how many can be on the LocalTalk
side. (Lower than the LocalTalk limit.)
The main reason I don't like the AsanteTalk is it wants to see all the
machines up and running before you turn it on so it can establish what
is where. I like the Gatorbox's intelligence. I want to plug in a
machine and have it work.
> The Gatorbox actually sets up the network segment
and is more sophisticated. Because of this, netatalk has to be
configured differently for each device. With the AsanteTalk, you want
the netatalk machine to be the network manager, called a seed router.
The netatalk machine is responsible for handing this information out
whenever a new machine on the segment asks. Past posts have worked
out the configuration for atalkd.conf to look something like:
eth0 -seed -phase 2 -net 1 -addr 1.6 -zone "MYnet"
Maybe even better to have both atalkd and the GatorBox as seed
routers.
When I had atalkd as a seed router, I wasn't able to see it on the
LocalTalk side. Perhaps after reconfiguring the Gatorbox I will
understand it better.
-- glen
Thanks for the info,
Dave...