I think I've been seeing something similar but I'm not
sure if it's related.
I run off of a small environment (10 Macs). Recently we've
been having problems with our G3 Based Macs and iMacs changing
identities. The netatalk server stays, but workstations
disappear. Or they map incorrectly (Machine X and Machine Y both
map to Machine X).
Is this netatalk related or is something completely different?
Jay
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Quant-X UNIX and Linux Support wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that you should send this to the linux-kernel list as the code
> which handles AARP resides in the kernel. This sounds like a serious
> problem to me. Perhaps it could have much consequences much worse than
> disappearing from the chooser. Anybody else seen it?
>
> I'm afraid that otherwise I can't offer much help to you. AARP doesn't
> smell good (by design). Too many broadcasts. Well, if this is not
> happening at many installations I guess that some things are getting
> lost on your network. Perhaps you can check cables and if the network
> is OK in general. Is it that the server disappears only from certain
> Macs?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dejan
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 07:00:10PM +0000, Alistair Riddell wrote:
> > I have an annoying problem.
> >
> > I use Netatalk to serve files to a network of around 400 macs. From time
> > to time the netatalk server disappears from the chooser. I have traced
> > this to the AARP entries cached in the server not matching the actual
> > address of the machines.
> >
> > Typically the machine's hardware address shows in /proc/net/aarp but the
> > corresponding AppleTalk address does not match that found in the AppleTalk
> > control panel.
> >
> > The annoying thing is there is no way that I can see of flushing/altering
> > /proc/net/aarp without killing netatalk and doing rmmod
> > appletalk. Obviously this is undesirable.
> >
> > Some more details:
> >
> > Server is running netatalk pre-asun2.1.4-37b.tar.gz; Linux kernel
> > 2.3.42. However the problem has been present for some time even when using
> > older netatalkd and kernel 2.2.
> >
> > machine is a dual-processor PIII; network card is a 3Com 3c905b plugged
> > into a 3com CoreBuilder 3500 switch, which is configured as an AppleTalk
> > router.
> >
> > Only machines in the same zone as the server have problems; other machines
> > don't presumably because the 3500 router does the AARP stuff.
> >
> > These problems do not affect TCP/IP connectivity; I can ping both ways
> > to/from affected machines and I can connect to the server by entering its
> > IP address in the chooser.
> >
> > This only appears to affect a handful of machines at once.
> >
> > Although the network range is a single number there are nothing like 254
> > machines in that network - the others are on the other side of the router.
> >
> > My /etc/atalkd/atalkd.conf looks like this:
> >
> > eth0 -phase 2 -net 12 -addr 12.152 -zone "Senior School South"
> >
> > I would be grateful for any suggestions.
> >
> >
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