Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!midway!ncar!boulder!ccncsu!hemstree From: hemstree@handel.CS.Colostate.Edu (charles he hemstreet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: MacTcp, IP numbers, etc... Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 08:19:56 GMT Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Colorado State University, CS Dept. Lines: 26 I am sort of new to the thought of all this TCP/IP stuff. I am able to get about quite freely on the net using NCSA Telnet 2.3 (great package!) as my mac is hooked up to the Internet backbone. When I am at home, I have tried to use the NCSA Telnet 2.3.2 without too much success. It tends to lock up on me if I get too big a packet (i.e. if I do a ls-al and the directory happens to be particularily big, the program locks up.) 1st question, why does this happen? 2nd question. I would like to FTP to my mac hooked to the backbone from my mac at home. How can I do this? (Do I leave my NCSA Telnet running so I can have an IP number assigned to the work mac? Is there another program that will assign an IP number to my mac?) Do I need to do anything special to retrieve stuff from my mac? Any response would be appreciated. Please email me directly. Thanks, Charles -- !===========================================================================! ! Charles H. Hemstreet IV !internet: hemstree@handel.cs.Colostate.Edu ! ! Colorado State University ! "am I suppose to say something funny??" ! !===========================================================================!