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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: netatalk??
Date: 25 Sep 1995 23:49:34 GMT
Organization: Applied Phyics Lab
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     Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com> wrote in article <4476nb$7na@news.cc.utah.edu> :
>
>I saw a post a while back on the hackers list from a hacker who had gotten
>netatalk to work with fBSD.  (he had to hack the kernel to have it see
>appletalk)
>
>Has netatalk work gone any farther?  Can I pick up the latest stable system
>and apply netatalk patches to it?
>
>Will the impending release be able to be used here?  Is it still going to be
>here "real soon now?" :) 
>

Mark Dawson <md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> provided the port of netatalk to FreeBSD.
His original port worked on 2.0.5-RELEASE.  I tried it on 2.0.5-STABLE
and sent him a couple of small diffs.  Netatalk works on a STABLE system
with a few caveats:

(1)  Your ethernet card must support multicast.  I have a 3c509, so
I had to dig up a multicast patch that Sege Babkin's has for the
ep0 device driver.   With the patch applied, I get sporadic error 
message to the console "Ep0: Status: 2002 (input buffer overflow)".
However, I haven't noticed any damaged files.

(2)  I get an error "ddp_route: oops" periodically on the console. I've
located the source of the error, but I do not know what the fix is (or
even if this is a problem).  Again, I have not notice any corruption of
files.

Steven G. Kargl     | Phone: 206-685-4677 |
Applied Physics Lab | Fax:   206-543-6785 |
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