Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:48:23 -0600 (CST) From: David Kelly <dkelly@mail.HiWAAY.net> To: alex@targeting.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cap and appletalk Message-ID: <199812031848.MAA19160@mail.HiWAAY.net>
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Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk> asks: > Hi, I'm having real problems setting up cap to talk to the macs in our > network. > I have set up the kernel to include netatalk capability. But I get pretty > stuck after that! > Hey ho, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about doing this. > I'm trying to follow the install cookbook on the cap site, but it's not > helping very much. Why are you using CAP? Netatalk works quite well, and is a FreeBSD port. Simply "cd /usr/ports/net/netatalk; make install" and when it finishes you have a runnable netatalk. Forgot if it starts it for you, but it does drop files in the right places so netatalk starts on next boot. Was not under the impression netatalk in the kernel did anything for CAP. Long time ago when I last looked at CAP, it was still hard to put native EtherTalk packets on the net, so CAP encapsulated EtherTalk in TCP/IP the same way Fastpath and Gatorbox bridges did. This works fine if the Macs are on Localtalk. Have never known a Mac to understand those encapsulated packets. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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