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From: sandra@digigw.digital.co.jp (Sandra Ishida)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Another Person Needing Help with Rutgers CAP (In English)
Keywords: Do I need a router?
Message-ID: <684@digigw.digital.co.jp>
Date: 11 Oct 90 07:20:24 GMT
Organization: Digital Electronics Corp., Osaka, Japan
Lines: 57

Hi, forgive my ignorance, but I'm new to Mac networks.
I'm trying to get printer sharing between our SUNs and our MACs.
Current configuration as follows:
                                                      Ethernet backbone
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |                    |                                |
   |                    |                                |
   |Ethertalk           |Ethertalk                   --------------
   |                    |                            |  4/370     |
   |                    |                            | SunOS 4.0.3|
   |                    |                            --------------
   |                    |
---------           ---------                                 
|       | LocalTalk |       | LocalTalk ---------------
|       |-----------|       |-----------| LaserWriter |
---------           ---------           ---------------
MacII MacOS
EtherPortII 
Appletalk for printer access

We only have a few MACs on the network and only use Localtalk for
printing.  Everything else is done via Ethertalk/Ethernet.  I'd like
to get rid of the Localtalk network completely.
I thought RUTGERS CAP would provide that, but I'm having trouble getting
it running.  I got as far as Claude Scarpelli (scarpell@cnca.cnca-cam.fr)
in a recent posting:
ie. made the library, made the programs, installed enet, etc.

Running aarpd returns:  
    Acquired node number 197
Running aarptest returns: 
    zone MY ZONE this 0.197 gw 0.0 nis 0.0 intf enet0
Running "aarptest 197" returns:
    ether addr 0:0:0:0:0:0  (Why!?)
    zone MY ZONE this 0.197 gw 0.0 nis 0.0 intf enet0

I traced aarpd as far as I could.  One symptom(?) is that etalk_init()
returns 0.  The comment beside the return statement says:
    /* true if okay, 0 o.w. */
If it's not okay, then why not?  What am I missing?
I assume it timed out?  Then, what was it waiting for?
Do I need an AppleTalk Internet Router?  If so, where can I get one?
Other output (for atis, atistest, etherstat, etc.) is similar to 
Scarpelli's posting.

Is there anyone out there who can help me?
E-mail responses are preferable to postings.
Thanks in advance.
_______________________________________________________________
	Sandra Ishida
	Digital Electronics
	8-2-52 Nanko-Higashi
	Suminoeku, Osaka 559 Japan
                                Tel. +81 6 613 1101
                                Fax. +81 6 613 5888
				Internet. sandra@digital.co.jp
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