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From: brad@CAYMAN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Rutgers CAP/ethertalk configuration
Message-ID: <9011172005.AA00637@andros.Cayman.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 90 20:05:47 GMT
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>> nis_node and nis_net are set correctly if you let atis figure out the
>> network number by listening to RTMP broadcasts from the bridges.
>> Sounds like insufficient testing of the code for running on networks
>> without bridges.  The reason it might work in a simple test is that

Sorry if this is old; running ecap, it does not seem work if there are
no bridges (nis_node is never set)

I have a simple fix for this (and I think the diff below is right, but don't
quote me)

andros% diff atis.c atis.c~
50d49
< #include "../lib/cap/ethertalk/sharedpage.h"
113d111
< u_char *sharedpage;
403,404d400
< 
<     nis_node = this_node;
andros% 


-brad