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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet 2.3 through NetBridge
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Date: 1 Feb 91 03:28:51 GMT
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In article <10488@bunny.GTE.COM> dhp1@gte.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
> We have two LocalTalk networks connected by a Shiva NetBridge.  I reside 
in
> LocalTalk Net #2.  In Net #1 there's a Kinetics FastPath connected to a 
small
> Ethernet.
>  
> When the NetBridge was first installed it was configured so Net #1 and 
Net #2
> possessed the same zone name.  For reasons which aren't important, the 
NetBridge
> had to be reconfigured to create two separate zone names.
>  
> Problem:  When the zones had the same name I was able to find the FP 
gateway
> and use NCSA Telnet to connect to a workstation.  Now, with the 
different zone
> names, I can't.  I revised my config.tel file to reflect the new 
configuration, i.e., I
> inserted a zone="name" to point to the zone where the FastPath resides .

The Shiva NetBridge is not the problem.  We have some here and they work 
fine with the MacTCP version of NCSA Telnet 2.3.

I can think of two problems:

If you are using the MacTCP version of NCSA Telnet, the "zone" field in 
the config.tel file is ignored.  You must use the MacTCP control panel to 
select the zone instead.

Tell MacTCP to get the IP address from the server. Don't try to use a 
static IP address - due to a deficiency in the protocols, static IP 
addresses don't work on LocalTalk Macs in zones other than the zone to 
which the FastPath or other AT/IP gateway is directly connected.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu