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From: jmg@cernvax.cern.ch (mike gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: MacTCP feature!
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Date: 14 Feb 91 15:24:09 GMT
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Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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We have recently been having trouble with Macs running NCSA telnet
being unable to connect off-site. It turns out that it is only those
using MacTCP, and seems to be a MacTCP weakness.

The problem seems to be when odd workstations are configured (wrongly)
to run the route daemon, so they broadcast the (wrong) fact that they
are routers. Most other systems which are set up to know the gateway
address for getting to other networks ignore these broadcasts. MacTCP,
however, decides to use these new router addresses instead of the one
that we have carefully configured in them.

Could there be a new MacTCP version which fixes this?

ps. I also found when trying various tests that the BYU version which
includes an ftp client does not seem to connect correctly to other
sites: maybe there is a new version there also!