[SunHELP] Seeding for apple network

[Tim Conrad]

You  might want to check out netatalk.

While i'm mostly making this up by the seat of my pants. Which is how I 
usually fly. I think that if you aren't routing appletalk, that the 
machines themselves can seed themselves. They'll simply assign themself an 
appletalk address, and then ask the network if it's being used or not. (Or 
something along those lines) If it's being used, it'll simply randomly pick 
another one and try again.

(I just know that I've worked in a lot of relatively simple AppleTalk 
networks, and never have had anything specifically configured to seed the 
network. The AppleShare IP server, may, but when it's only configured to 
use IP and not AppleTalk, it probably isn't seeding the network.)

Then again, I have 0 clue what 'totalnet' is.

Tim


At 02:21 PM 8/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>You only need to seed if you are going to have zones. Usually you separate
>zones with routers. Therefore, usually you need a router to seed the net.
>
>You have an alternative if you have the Mac Server Software. That could seed
>too (though I never have done it that way).
>
>If you have a Cisco router you can use the IOS versions that support
>Appletalk to seed the net. If you need such an IOS I can help.
>
>I have seen snippets of support for Appletalk (ethertalk actually) under
>Linux. Perhaps a Linuxboxen could seed. I have never played with Apple under
>linux, so no idea of its capabilities (my large scale Mac networking days
>preceeded my Linux days).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wolfgang Engelien [mailto:wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:10 PM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] Seeding for apple network
> >
> >

 > Hi all,
 >
 > I try to get rid of totalnet, but I might need a
 > way to seed an apple network. Is there some freeware
 > available to seed an apple network?
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Wolfgang
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