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- From: sms@gamma.dou.dk (Sven Meiborg Sorensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: ARA to ethernet Mac?
- Keywords: ARA, ethernet, phase II, FastPath
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.112315.5932@imada.ou.dk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 11:23:15 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.125338.198@imada.ou.dk>
- Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: sms@gamma.dou.dk (Sven Meiborg Sorensen)
- Organization: DOU-CAMPUS, Odense University, Denmark
- Lines: 41
-
- I asked about AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA):
-
- > [...] when I dial into a Mac directly on the ethernet, I can only
- > access AppleTalk services - _NOT_ TCP/IP services.
- >
- > Rumours have it that by cleverly configuring one of the FPs to act as
- > "AppleTalk-to-IP" translator you can gain access to TCP/IP services as well.
- >
- > But how?
-
- Thanks to Tom Watson and Christopher Davis for suggestions to turn
- on option 7 in the FastPath.
-
- Actually, I had tried this option - but with wrong settings of MacTCP. Your
- answers convinced me that I ought to read the manual again about this
- option and try it once more. And now it works for me too!
-
- If others have trouble with ARA and multiple FastPaths with dynamic
- IP-numbers they could try the following steps:
-
- 1. Turn on option 7 ("IP Forwarding for EtherTalk" under "IP Forwarding"
- in the Ethernet section) for any FastPath. Remember the AppleTalk
- zone name for this FP.
- 2. Dial in from your remote Mac with ARA to a stationary Mac directly on the
- ethernet. The zone of this Mac and its MacTCP settings do not matter.
- 3. Configure MacTCP with AdminTCP on the _remote_ Mac to the following
- settings:
- - LocalTalk interface
- - Same zone name as that of the FastPath in step 1. (This can only be
- done after step 2, as the zones only appear at that step)
- - Click "More" and choose the IP-number method of the FastPath (in my
- case "Server" which gives dynamic IP numbers from the FastPath)
-
- - and that should be all. The changes in step 3 may force you to disconnect
- ARA and reboot the remote Mac, but they should only need to be done once.
-
- /Sven
-
- Sven Meiborg Sorensen Internet: sms@gamma.dou.dk
- Senior Analyst
- Odense University, Denmark
-