Netatalk on multihome RH5.2

[Thierry de Villeneuve <tdevill1 san rr com>]

Dear All

I've tried to get netatalk working on my 2 NIC RH5.2 box. I'm having strange problems with it and can't get it to work.

I'm using the contribed netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.2-4.i386.rpm

My machine is configured with eth0 connected with DHCP to my cable-modem and eth1 is on my private network side under 192.168.1.0. I'm doing masquerading between the private network and the outside network. Works Ok AFAIK.

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Straight out of the box, afpd complains it's missing the -n option!

Very strange!. IT appears that the /etc/atalk/config script is not able to get the HOSTNAME env variable when invoked by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start  script.

I had to modify the line

  ATALK_NAME=${HOSTNAME}

by

  ATALK_NAME=$(hostname)

to get afpd loaded finally.

I modified ad-hoc AppleVolumes.default to set up a default share.

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Then, I noticed it started looking up nodes on eth0. This interface is the "ourside" one.

I edited atalkd.conf to inculde a line like this:

   eth1 -seed -phase 1 -zone "My zone"

That gets rewritten automatically as:

   eth1 -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 65280.127


After I start atalk, a few minutes after I see timeout messages poping on the console:

   Transmitted timeout: status 0050 command 0000
   eth1: Trying to restart the transmitter


What is wrong with my set up. I can't get more hints by myself.

Thanks for any help.
Thierry






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