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Reply/Radius seemed to have gotten into the DOS card game too. Unlike their Nubus PPC line cards (which were clones of Hondini for 7100/8100), this is a new design with in-house software. Note this is the first I've seen of screenshots of this bespoke software...

A few Powerbook G4 systems that shipped in late 2003 originally came with MacOS X 10.2. When I purchased my 15in G4 AlBook (online order) on release day, it was a crap shoot whether it would have came with Panther preinstalled. Apple offered a Panther CD upgrade set to all purchasers for like...

Run a packet sniffer on the Ethernet segment of the network and filter out the AARP packets. If they appear as Ethernet II frames instead of SNAP frames, then the router or ZuluSCSI is mangling the packets. No tweaks are needed for OpenWRT or ddwrt. The code that handles the packet...

Surprised the Ubiquiti AP supports AARP properly given the track record of their routers with DDP traffic.

I have to go thru and recreate the steps. The in-progress version of A2SERVER already sets this up automatically. The biggest pain is creating a persistent TAP interface on boot, which differs depending on the Linux distro. You need to create a systemd service for TashRouter too.

Any router running ddwrt or OpenWRT should work. In theory any router running Linux should work properly as well as the kernel can properly route AARP packets between WiFi and Ethernet. GL.inet's entire router line runs OpenWRT and are pretty affordable.

Since atalkd doesn't support the TashTalk directly, you'll have to run both regardless. In my case, I create a tap interface (called tash0) and "connect" both atalkd and tashrouter to it with a dedicated network number. This avoids using kernel bridging and some other weird side effects, like...

The G5 running Tiger should (in theory) be able to print out of the box via Bonjour. Under the hood it uses CUPS. Classic MacOS can print via LPR using the LaserWriter 8 driver (clunky, but works) or by setting up a Netatalk server on a Pi or VM to serve as a real AppleTalk PAP print spooler...

Would be curious if PC Setup 1.6.4 or the 3rd party PC Setup 2.0 fixed this. Assuming Apple stored the PC side BIOS in a resource, it should be easy to compare what was patched.

The screenshot above is what you will see on an Ethernet connection without a router defining zones or a network range. How is the machine connected, Ethernet or LocalTalk? What router is seeding the network with zone information?

I finally tracked down the Usenet post that indicates that this document has additional information that Inside AppleTalk 2nd Edition lacks. See: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.appletalk/c/YcJkQ8t8e7Q/m/EjOUlKL3KL8J This post dates to 1992, so well after the revised Inside AppleTalk...

Tom Andrews of Amiga of Rochester recaps and repairs vintage Macs. I have used his services in the past, including recapping a LC line power supply. https://amigaofrochester.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AmigaOfRochesterNYUSA/

The old ea=ad system isn't going away anytime soon.

The org.netatalk.ResourceFork EA is only used in Solaris. The extended attribute API that works similar to file descriptors (complete with random access) only exists on that OS. Even Darwin doesn't have this, although with some coding, you can simulate it for the resource fork (some of Apple's...

Since this is on-topic for a Netatalk thread, here are the nitty gritty details on what is stored with each AppleDouble backend: The "old" AppleDouble v2 system: All metadata for files is stored in a separate hidden directory called .AppleDouble with equivalently named files. These files follow...

Took a look at the materials on the AppleTalk for Programmers CD. Sadly nothing too detailed in the lessons, but there is a really nice HyperCard stack with the various AppleTalk packet format graphics in it.

OK, the above will only work if you are using ea = sys and NOT the old AppleDouble v2 system with ea = ad. IT should be pulling the resource fork from the ._ files as I have it working here. You need both files in the directory together, Netatalk always stores the resource fork in the ._ file.

In addition to the ad set commands, add the following to your script to "fix up" the header of your ._ files so Netatalk stops complaining about bad AppleDouble data: printf '\x4E\x65\x74\x61\x74\x61\x6C\x6B\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20' | dd of="._Applications HD.img" bs=1 seek=8 count=16...

Its not a new idea, look up the CBS sequential color television system. Early on, many flatbed scanners were not "single pass". They were actually modified grayscale units doing what you want to do, except that they automatically switched out the red, green, and blue color filters with each...