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From: moyman@ECN.PURDUE.EDU (James M Moya)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacTCP on LocalTalk'ed machine
Message-ID: <9101081328.AA11082@aquarium.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 13:28:52 GMT
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>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