Netatalk and named broken on arm?

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Sam Leffler wrote:

> Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>> I'm having problems with both netatalk and named on my Avila system -- in 
>> particular AARP seems to be broken (it sends out bogus packets asking about 
>> address 0.0.0 from 0.0, and it works on other big-endian systems like 
>> sparc64), and named hangs when starting. Are these known problems, and do 
>> they have known solutions?
>
> Not sure about named but it's unlikely anyone has tried netatalk.

As I understand it, issues of alignment/packing often come up with network 
code when running on ARM.  Try adding __packed to the definition of sturct 
ether_aarp in aarp.h and rebuilding the kernel?

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge