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From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike Paisley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacTCP on LocalTalk'ed machine
Keywords: MacTCP, LocalTalk
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.001629.15224@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 91 00:16:29 GMT
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In article <1990Dec31.214828.20984@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> frye@cerl.uiuc.edu (G.
David Frye) writes:

>In article <1990Dec31.173427.8371@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Paisley@mte.ncsu.edu
writes:
>>We are reconfiguring our lab from using built-in TCP drivers (like NCSA
Telnet)
>>to using MacTCP.  I had no problems with systems directly on the Ethernet,
but
>>can't get it to work on machines that are on LocalTalk and then connected to
>>the big net via a FastPath.  I don't have any real documentation on MacTCP
>>since the MacTCP drivers came included in other packages (like Mathematica,
>>etc.).
>...
>The one key piece was knowing to configure MacTCP to be in "server" mode. It
>seems intuitive to use the "dynamic" setting, but it's wrong and you'll get
>inconsistent results at best.

We have our net setup for manually entering the net numbers, but I tried
"server"
mode as well, to no avail.  I also checked a few more things.  I booted with no
INITs loaded (except MacTCP) and that didn't help.  I tried selecting LocalTalk
interface instead of EthernetTCP in the MacTCP CDEV. Finally, I checked out the
version number and am using MacTCP v1.0.  I'm not sure what to try next.

Mike Paisley (paisley@mte.ncsu.edu)
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