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From: [e-mail] (Kris Hampel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: CAP: ethertalk on ULTRIX 4.2A (+more problems)
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Date: 3 Sep 92 11:14:39 GMT
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>From: [e-mail] (Jorge Cisternas)
>
>Hello!
>    I'm stalling CAP 6.0 on an ULTRIX 4.2 with ethertalk, but it has
>many problems while compiling aarpd. Isn't there any patch that solves
this
>problem?

I've managed to compile the thing (cap 6.0 pl100) fine (defining the
ULTPF42BUG flag in the m4.features, without the kernel patches). I have
even managed to get aarpd to work (briefly: we had printing services for
a whole day). When somebody recompiled a kernel on another decstation
aarpd broke. It refuses to put our appletalk network numbers in
etalk.local, what is really strange is that it seems to realise that
the network is there, it just doesn't communicate it to etalk.local.
Our configuration is approx 12 macs with apple ethernet cards
1 se/30 with a third party card, 1 webster multigate, a couple of
sparcstations using NIT (which work fine). All I want is for the unix
boxes to be able to see the laserwriters on the localtalk (and no,
using lpr between the unix boxes is not an option).

Below is what I get for the aarpd -D20

11:18:39 09/01/92  Ethernet address for pf0 is aa:00:04:00:8a:06
11:18:40 09/01/92  acquired node 1 on interface pf0
11:18:41 09/01/92  sending GetNetInfo request ...
11:18:41 09/01/92  Got mapping for 226/31.167
11:18:41 09/01/92    Address: 0 0 18 0 4 e2
11:18:41 09/01/92  New AARP mapping for node 226/31.167
11:18:45 09/01/92  sending GetNetInfo request ...
11:18:49 09/01/92  sending GetNetInfo request ...
11:18:53 09/01/92  sending GetNetInfo request ...
11:18:57 09/01/92  AARPD .... Running
11:19:07 09/01/92  Got mapping for 19/31.167
11:19:07 09/01/92    Address: 2 60 8c 6 e7 21
11:19:07 09/01/92  New AARP mapping for node 19/31.167
11:19:07 09/01/92  Got mapping for 226/31.167
11:19:07 09/01/92    Address: 0 0 18 0 4 e2
11:19:07 09/01/92  Resetting an old mapping for node 226/31.167
11:19:35 09/01/92  setting bridge address
11:19:35 09/01/92  setting bridge address
11:22:09 09/01/92  request for bridge address: 8103.226
11:22:09 09/01/92  request for 226/31.167
11:24:39 09/01/92  deleting arp entry: node 19/31.167
11:24:39 09/01/92  deleting arp entry: node 226/31.167
11:24:59 09/01/92  Address conflict 1/255.0

And here is the etalk.local

# EtherTalk dynamic configuration data
#
# Last update:  Tue Sep  1 14:50:24 1992
#
# Generated by Native EtherTalk (Phase 2)
#
interface       "pf0"
netRangeStart    0.00
netRangeEnd     255.254
thisNet         255.00
thisNode        1
thisZone        "IRC_Zone_0"
bridgeNet        0.00
bridgeNode      0
bridgeIP        127.0.0.1
nisNet          255.00
nisNode         1
asyncNet         0.00
asyncZone       ""

Any suggestions most gratefully appreciated. What I find strange is that
cap (aarpd) broke on a machine where it had previously worked. There were
no changes (to my knowledge) to the configuration of that machine!

Kris Hampel

Solid State Theory Group, Blackett Laboratory.
Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BZ, England.
==========> kris @ sst.ph.ic.ac.uk <==========