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From: paul@frcs.alt.za (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netatalk for NetBSD
Date: 13 May 1995 10:54:13 +1000
Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC
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laine@morningstar.com (Laine Stump) writes:
> Any other appletalk file/print servers that build on NetBSD?
CAP works fine. There are a couple of tweaks, which should make it
into the next round of patches. You have to tweak the ethernet
driver as well, to support SIOCGIFADDR ioctl in the driver for
your ether card, and multicast addressing in the BPF driver. You
can avoid kernel changes by hard-coding your ether address into
the CAP binaries, and avoid the multicast stuff by running Ethertalk
phase 1. Phase 2 _may_ work without the BPF changes, depending
on your network. The multicast support is in the ether driver, but
BPF doesn't pass the ioctls down the chain, and CAP talks to BPF,
not directly to the ether driver (as far as I know -- if I am
wrong, you'll save two lines of patching :-)).
I've forwarded all the changes to the CAP maintainers, so they should
be available by now. I'm not sure of all the CAP sites, but
munarri.oz.au has the defintive version (there are mirrors in the
US).
If you want a copy of the patches, send me mail & I'll mail my diffs.
I'm not in a position to send binaries, as the CAP copyright &c seems
to prevent this (I haven't got enough bandwidth anyway).
--
Paul Nash <paul@frcs.alt.za> turbo-nerd & all-round nice guy
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