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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!miff From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: CAP on FreeBSD? Date: 31 Jul 94 02:06:13 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <miff.775620373@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Greetings people : I have before me a copy of CAP (The Columbia Appletalk Protocol), currently patched to pl192. FreeBSD support appears to have been implemented using the BPF pseudo-dev, however the author suggests that his patches (as posted to 386bsd.bugs) need to be applied to the kernel before use or certain errors will occur. These errors don't actually occur, but other problems do 8) If anyone out there is using CAP to provide fileserving facilities to a small group of ethernetted Macs from a FreeBSD box, I'd like to swap a few questions with you. The most obvious problem at the moment is that when aarpd is started, the /etc/etalk.local file contains far too many zeroes where 'real' numbers seem to ought to be. When atis is started, it complains open: /dev/bpfXX: device not configured. However, if I delete /etc/etalk.local before running atis, it starts fine, and atistest works ok as well. Unfortunately the etalk.local that gets written after I start atis is even worse 8(, and nothing seems to be getting out to the Macs. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #