Need help connecting PowerBook 230 to a LAN and to the Web — #49

Post #49 by porter

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Sun, 1 Feb 2009 - 18:42
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/need-help-connecting-powerbook-230-to-a-lan-and-to-the-web.16317/

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As a result, ifconfig does not report that there is an eth0 interface active. It seems worrisome that when I run the atalkd command, quad returns "eth0: Operation not permitted" and "atalkd: zero interfaces, exiting." nbplkup on quad returns "nbp_lookup: Cannot assign requested address".
So I then tell quad to use a fixed IP address. ifconfig reports that there is an eth0 interface active, as expected. atalkd now returns "eth0: disabled", and nbplkup returns the same "error" message as above.

My suspicion is that I still do not understand how to get netatalk to work. Do I need to put a second ethernet connection into quad, so I can try to configure netatalk on something other than eth0?

Before running 'atalkd' do you ever check to see if it is already running? 'atalkd' isn't just some random program, it's a daemon that is supposed be run once at startup, sit there and manage alot of the appletalk protocol.

My ubuntu box has exactly one ethernet port and the atalkd.conf is basically empty, and netatalk is run automatically at startup.

If running "nbplkup" returns your local machines names but nothing else then netatalk is at least configured and doing stuff. If nbplkup fails with cannot use address or similar then netatalk is down.