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From: fosler@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (John Eric Fosler)
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Subject: Re: MacTCP and System 7.0 w/ AppleTalk
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Date: 5 Jun 91 20:38:46 GMT
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In article <44197@netnews.upenn.edu> fosler@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (John Eric Fosler) writes:
>I know the nets have been blazing with talk of MacTCP and how to get it
>working, but we're stumped as to how to get TCP running again after installing
>System 7.
>
>Here's the setup:
>Mac IIx, running System 7
>Mac TCP set up for Dynamic Addressing
>AppleTalk Phase I
>
>Here's the situation...
>The computer worked fine before System 7.  Sometimes it took a while to get
>an address dynamically (i.e. a few tries with telnet).
>We installed System 7, and TCP no longer gets an address.
>We tried switching the TCP to manual addressing w/ a valid IP address.  Nope.
>We tried a clean System 7 disk, installed TCP from a clean source, configured
>it, still no luck.
>We tried a System 6 disk w/ TCP.  Still nothing.
>We removed everything but the bare bones of the System and we still had zero.
>
>Any suggestions as to what we can do?  

Sorry to follow up to my own article, but since I've been getting mail about
this:

We have, as suggested, left MacTCP in the System Folder and aliased it to
the Control Panels folder.  

Also, the version we are running is 1.0.2.

Thanx again,
Eric
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