Re: Issues with Netatalk and MACE

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 13 September 2010 21:56, Hauke Fath 
<hauke%espresso.rhein-neckar.de@localhost> wrote:
> A late follow-up...
>
> At 13:48 Uhr -0400 9.7.2010, David Riley wrote:
>>I've been trying for the last day or so to get Netatalk (specifically with
>>Appletalk networking, for some older Macs) working properly and I'm a bit
>>stumped.
>>
>>When I launch atalkd (/etc/rc.d/atalkd start), I get the usual business
>>about not being able to register the workstations because NBP registration
>>is timing out.
>
> Netatalk (atalk) works fine here on a netbsd-4 sparc. On a netbsd-5 i386
> machine, I see the nbprgstr(8) issue, too. Actually, ever since I upgraded
> it from netbsd-4.
>
> And Âon -current Appletalk support seems to be completely broken.
>
>>Digging a little deeper, I see on the network that I'm sending out
>>multicast AARP requests for my own address (let's call it 42.182 for now).
>>"tcpdump -nvvvXe aarp" shows that I'm asking who-has 42.182 from 42.182.
>>Sadly, though, my own machine doesn't see those requests (MACE doesn't get
>>its outgoing broadcasts/multicasts looped back, it seems). ÂIf I
>>instrument sys/arch/macppc/dev/am79c950.c to print out every MAC address
>>that comes across in the Rx interrupt, I never see that frame.
>
> FWIW, this is what my netbsd-4 sparc sees:
>
> [hauke@pizza] ~ # tcpdump -i hme0 -nvvvXe aarp
> tcpdump: listening on hme0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
> 22:44:35.896796 08:00:20:72:4e:a1 > 09:00:07:ff:ff:ff, 802.3, length 50:
> LLC, dsap SNAP (0xaa), ssap SNAP (0xaa), cmd 0x03, aarp probe 1.83.3 tell
> 1.83.3
> Â Â Â Â0x0000: Âaaaa 0300 0000 80f3 0001 809b 0604 0003 Â................
> Â Â Â Â0x0010: Â0800 2072 4ea1 0001 5303 0000 0000 0000 Â...rN...S.......
> Â Â Â Â0x0020: Â0001 5303 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â..S.
> 22:44:36.096777 08:00:20:72:4e:a1 > 09:00:07:ff:ff:ff, 802.3, length 50:
> LLC, dsap SNAP (0xaa), ssap SNAP (0xaa), cmd 0x03, aarp probe 1.83.3 tell
> 1.83.3
> Â Â Â Â0x0000: Âaaaa 0300 0000 80f3 0001 809b 0604 0003 Â................
> Â Â Â Â0x0010: Â0800 2072 4ea1 0001 5303 0000 0000 0000 Â...rN...S.......
> Â Â Â Â0x0020: Â0001 5303 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â..S.
> [...]
>
> The netbsd-5 i386 prints similar output, so your problem may well be
> machine (interface) specific.

Does anyone have a sparc netbsd-5 box or a non sparc netbsd-4 box on
which they could fire up netatalk to give a datapoint?