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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: MacTCP/Kstar/Dynamic IP addresses
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Date: 6 Jul 90 15:53:48 GMT
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Has anyone had problems with K-Star, MacTCP, and Dynamic IP addresses?

We have one site trying to use this combination with very little success.
The macintoshes usually cannot talk to anything with IP, not even
a machine on their local network accessed through its IP number.

Just to make life more interesting, they occasionally (say, 1 reboot
out of 10) work just fine. I have been unable to detect any rhyme or
reason to when they do or do not work.

These same Macintoshes have no problems whatsoever with the non-mactcp
versions of NCSA Telnet and tn3270.

Here are the specifics:

Kbox at 128.174.91.64, configured for 5 static and 50 dynamic addresses.

MacTCP:
  Dynamic addressing (node id from 1-254 [why does MacTCP want to know?])
  Gateway address 128.174.91.1 (a proteon ip router)
  Class B addressing, 16 net bits, 8 subnet bits, 8 node bits

Does this ring any bells for anybody?  I'm baffled.

Maybe I should tell them to get Gatorboxes instead...
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner