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From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacTCP on LocalTalk'ed machine
Keywords: MacTCP LocalTalk
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.213634.5413@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 21:36:34 GMT
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In article <9101081328.AA11082@aquarium.ecn.purdue.edu> moyman@ECN.PURDUE.EDU
(James M Moya) writes:
>>
>>Last Update on this topic:  I got a call from the person at Apple who wrote
>>MacTCP (sorry, I forgot your name), and he confirmed that the IPADDRESS
object
>>was required for MacTCP to work correctly. Wow, I was impressed with Apple's
>>service on this one.  
>>
>This just isn't entirely true. FastPath 1's, 2's, and 3's ran KIP (not
>KSTAR) and never registered an IPADDRESS node for themselves. They
>registered themselves as IPGATEWAY (FP4's running KSTAR register themselves
>as IPADDRESS) ...and MacTCP ran fine (and still does...)... through them. 
>--moya
>
>--Mike Moya 
>--Macintosh Systems and Networking
>--Engineering Computer Network, Purdue University
>--moyman@ecn.purdue.edu or ..!pur-ee!moyman
>
I think GatorBoxes also register IPGATEWAY nodes, if I'm not mistaken. 
However, in my case the FP3 isn't registering any IP node on the net, so it
just don't work for me.  Thanks for clarifying that.

Mike Paisley 
paisley@mte.ncsu.edu
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
(919) 737-7781