Subject: Re: Netatalk Setup
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@mvista.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/06/1999 16:13:47
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> > You're not connecting through a switch, are you?  AppleTalk doesn't seem
> > to make it through some switches.  Just a thought (from someone who sees
> > the same thing w/ MkLinux through a switch).
> 
> Sounds like the switch isn't passing multicast addresses. Sounds like a
> switch bug, as multicast addresses should be passed like broadcast. :-)

Probably.  The switch is pretty quirky.  It tends to take a while to
"find" devices, too, although routed _seems_ to help this, and it doesn't
seem to have trouble with MacOS machines, just un*x ones.  Weird.


David