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From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike Paisley)
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Subject: Re: MacTCP 1.02
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Date: 6 Jun 91 02:39:05 GMT
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In article <511@yetti.UUCP> frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
>Hello everyone,
>I have previously setup the NCSA Telnet for LocalTalk (not TCP ver.) 2.3
without
>difficulties and had no problems connecting to the Sun (UNIX) hosts. When I
try to
>do the sam efor the TCP version of NCSA's Telnet - no luck. I've gone through
the
>documentation and I seem to understand the setup for MacTCP - well I though I
did
>anyway. Here is my setup:
>
I went through this EXACT same problem about 6 months ago.
I complained on the net about it and actually got a call
from the guy at Apple who wrote MacTCP.  The problem is
that the gateway needs to create two named objects called
"IPADDRESS" and "IPGATEWAY" where the IPGATEWAY has a name
that is its IP address.  The FastPath 2's and 3's code 
don't do that, and I couldn't find anyone who could 
supply me with one that did.  I heard (rumored) that an
old version of the CAP package will do it, but I wasn't
interested, so didn't follow up on it. My solution was to
upgrade, switching to GatorBoxes, because the rest of the
campus runs them, and it made sense to be the same.  Now
that Shiva has announced the FastPath 5, you might want 
to look into what you can get for an upgrade.  They were
offering upgrade (since expired) to FP4 for $1000.

Mike Paisley  (paisley@mte.ncsu.edu)