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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacTCP/Kstar/Dynamic IP addresses
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Date: 6 Jul 90 18:05:46 GMT
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I wrote:
>Has anyone had problems with K-Star, MacTCP, and Dynamic IP addresses?

Two people have already pointed me at the problem.

To use dynamic ip addresses with MacTCP, you must choose "Server" in
the AdminTCP CDEV.

What everybody else calls "dynamic addressing", that is the handing out
of IP addresses by an appletalk-ip gateway, MacTCP calls "Server" addressing.

Silly me; I had assumed "Server" meant RARP.

My only guess as to what "dynamic" means to MacTCP is that it should
examine the entrails of a goat to find the ip address; we evidently
forgot to provide a goat.

For those of you who are fond of black humor, here are the relevant
portions of the MacTCP admin guide:

o You have selected the Server button in the Administrator dialog box so
  that the IP address is obtained automatically from a Server.  The IP
  Address box appears on the MacTCP Control Panel with the address
  already set.
o You have selected the Dynamically button in the Administrator dialog
  box so that the node portion of the IP address is assigned dynamically
  from the indicated range.  The IP Address box appears on the MacTCP
  Control Panel with the address already set.


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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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