Subject: RE: net/if.c fix for netatalk
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/02/1999 13:35:33
> On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 05:28:00PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > But you only have one address. My netatalk machine's down, so I can't
> > demonstrate, but typically it'd be something like
> > 
> > 502.32   in a range from 500->510
> > 
> > If I did the math right, we'd have routes 500->503 (0x1f4->0x1f7),
> > 504->507 (0x1f8->0x1fb), 508->509 (0x1fc->0x1fd), and 510.
> 
> That's my situation as well.

There's an alternate way of doing this.  Don't encode the atalk routes 
as binary but instead use BCD.  So then you'd have routes 0x0500/0xfff0 
and 0x0510/0xffff.

Just a thought.