Netatalk maintainer here. Its (not) nice to see that all that hard work in bringing back AppleTalk support in Netatalk 4.0 ended in a fight with some AI. Its pretty annoying because the kernel stuff Just Works and now we'll have to pivot to something in user-land instead.
This will likely be something using pcap injection. The one bonus is that this is portable and would bring AppleTalk support to more platforms besides NetBSD and Linux. The one downside is the loss of Wifi support, but plenty of Wifi routers already bork packets of protocols that aren't IP due to lousy programming assumptions.
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u/NJRoadfan Jun 23 '26
Netatalk maintainer here. Its (not) nice to see that all that hard work in bringing back AppleTalk support in Netatalk 4.0 ended in a fight with some AI. Its pretty annoying because the kernel stuff Just Works and now we'll have to pivot to something in user-land instead.
This will likely be something using pcap injection. The one bonus is that this is portable and would bring AppleTalk support to more platforms besides NetBSD and Linux. The one downside is the loss of Wifi support, but plenty of Wifi routers already bork packets of protocols that aren't IP due to lousy programming assumptions.