Subject: Re: More On NetAtalk Problems
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/20/1998 23:17:55
Generally I used 'tcpdump not ip'. Providing you do not have
much in the way of SNA or IPX traffic its fine :)
David/absolute
-=- "Old Red he died, and every single landlord in the district cried" -=-
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> Could someone please tell me what expression I should use with tcpdump to
> get a record of the Appletalk packets exchanged through a NetBSD router
> between a Mac and a printer. The AppleTalk-aware version of snoop on my
> Sun only sees the broadcast and multicast traffic (we have switched hubs).
>
> I have a failure perhaps similar to the one reported a few days ago and
> would like to provide some additional data if I can. The symptoms I see
> are that everyone can see the zone I created, only my PMac can ever see the
> printer, and about 2/3 of the time I can't print to it because the printer
> can't be found.
>
> A perhaps significant detail is that once a print job starts it always runs
> to completion with no problems.
>
> Oh, yes, some background: Q840/MacBSD 1.3.0 with two Ethernet interfaces,
> mc0 connected to same subnet as the PMac 7600/150, ae0 connected only to an
> HP LaserJet 5MP with a JetDirect Ethernet interface. All network numbers
> are lots bigger than 256.
>
> Signature failed Preliminary Design Review.
> Feasibility of a new signature is currently being evaluated.
> h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu
>
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