CAP/doc/iptalk.cookbook

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Herewith 10 easy steps to installing CAP with IPTalk:
1. Make sure that you have the latest CAP code. If in doubt, FTP the CAP
FAQ file mac/cap.patches/CAP.faq from munnari.OZ.AU. It contains a list of
the sites where CAP is available, please choose the closest site.
2. Run the CAP Configure program, answer all of the questions with the
defaults (by hitting RETURN). Run gen.makes to create the makefiles.
3. Find out the IP address of the CAP host, say 132.45.67.89. This is a 32
bit number represented as four 8-bit quantities written as decimal numbers.
It could also be represented as a hexadecimal number, 0x842d4359. The CAP
host node number is the bottom eight bits of the IP address, written as a
decimal number, in this case 89.
4. Find out the IP address of the IPTalk compatible gateway, such as a
FastPath, GatorBox or MultiPort Gateway, say 132.45.67.90. The "bridge"
node number is the bottom eight bits of the IP address, in this case 90.
5. Check that the top 24-bits of the two IP addresses are identical, in
this case 132.45.67. For simplicity I'll call this the IP subnet number.
If they do not match you have to investigate the atalkad administration
package, or use CAP with Native EtherTalk or one of the AppleTalk routers.
6. Find out the IPTalk network number being used by the gateway. This is
a 16-bit number represented as two 8-bit quantities separated by periods
or a single decimal number. For example 93.57 is 93*256 + 57, or 23865.
Each IPTalk network number is uniquely associated with one IP subnet
number, each IPTalk installation must have a unique network number where
the IP subnets differ.
7. (optional) Check all the other network numbers in use on your network,
make sure that the IPTalk network number is not being used for LocalTalk,
EtherTalk (Phase 1 or Phase 2) or on any other IPTalk network where the
IP subnet numbers differ.
8. Find out the zone name associated with the IPTalk network number. This
may be the same as other zone names on the network but must be identical
to the zone name programmed into the IPTalk gateway. eg: unimelb-CompSci
9. Create a file called /etc/atalk.local using the template provided in
cap60/etc/atalk.local and the UNIX manual entry in cap60/man/atalk.local.5
As a minimum, the file would look like the following, using the numbers
from the examples used above, comment lines start with a '#'
# mynet mynode myzone
93.57 89 unimelb-CompSci
# bridgenet bridgenode bridgeIP
93.57 90 132.45.67.90
10. Find out what UDP ports are being used on the IP network. These are
also called the "NIC Assigned" ports. These ports map to AppleTalk socket
numbers and are used to deliver packets to the correct UNIX processes. By
default, CAP will use the ports starting at 768 so that the RTMP socket
number 1 maps to UDP port 769 and the ECHO socket 4 maps to 772. The
official port range starts at 200, so RTMP becomes 201 and ECHO becomes
204. To ensure that CAP uses the official ports, add the following entries
to the file /etc/services or the NIS database
at-rtmp 201/udp
at-nbp 202/udp
at-echo 204/udp
at-zis 206/udp
The port numbers should already be defined in the gateway configuration.
Continue testing from the [10] Verification step in cap60/doc/install.ms
Note: if you are using CAP with Native EtherTalk then ignore all but step 1.
The Native EtherTalk code is able to learn the network configuration. If
you have an /etc/atalk.local file, you should remove it. If there are no
other routers on the network, start aarpd with "*" as the zone name. The
UDP ports are also used in Native EtherTalk, as markers for sockets in use.
If a CAP process has trouble starting the ZIS listener or ECHO or NBP
sockets are unavailable, consider installing the official UDP port entries.