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From: heal@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren E. Heal)
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Subject: Re: The News on Mac vs NNTP
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Date: 3 May 91 02:44:10 GMT
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mosemann@sardion.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann) writes:
>   The News (a news reader for the Macintosh) does not work for Macs on a
>LocalTalk network tied to the Ethernet with a FastPath or a GatorBox.
>These "gateways" are configured to dynamically assign IP numbers to the

That's the problem.  We have our IP addresses statically assigned,
and this seems to fix The News.  Both Fastpaths and Gatorboxes can
work this way.
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