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- From: Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com (Mike Peters)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: CSLIP and MacTCP problem resolved!
- Message-ID: <Mike_Peters-050193083915@greer.az.stratus.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:44:11 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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-
- When I first installed A/UX on my home IIci several months ago, I was
- unable to get MacTCP applications to communicate via CSLIP. I've been
- working with the Apple Support Service group to resolve it. Apparently,
- there a several other people that are having the same problem. I've seen
- the same symptoms posted many times since I first reported the problem to
- Apple.
-
- The problem occurs when configuring CSLIP without the presence of an
- Ethernet card. MacTCP gets confused and uses the loopback (127.0.0.1)
- address as the source address and fails.
-
- The following is the documentation I received yesterday from Apple. The
- only step that was neccessary to resolve the problem on my system was step
- #8. Once the MacTCP Patches were installed, I removed the Enet card (I
- borrowed one), rebooted and everything now works. Keep in mind however,
- what newconfig WILL NOT query you for your network address or system name
- unless you have an Enet card installed. For CSLIP only users, the NETADDRS
- & HOSTNAME files must be created by hand.
-
- 1) Setup the slip server per pages 7-4 through 7-7
- of the Network Administration manual.
- 2) If the slip server was not previously running routed, and if it had
- a default route added, remove the default route:
- route delete default gateway-name
- 3) Enable ip forwarding on the slip server per page 2-34 of the
- Network Administration manual
- 4) Setup the slip client per pages 7-7 through 7-10 of
- the Network Administration manual.
- 5) Establish a serial connection from the slip client to the slip server
- and start slip on the server, per page 7-11 of
- the Network Administration manual.
- 6) Run slattconf on the slip client. Follow page 7-12 of the
- Network Administration manual, but add the correct netmask, as in:
- slattconf +c tty0 9600 client_name server_name -arp netmask
- 255.255.252.0
- 7) If the client is not connected to another (local) network, and a default
- route was previously set, clear it and reset the default route:
- /usr/etc/route delete default default_router_name
- /usr/etc/route add default default_router_name 1
- 8) UNSUPPORTED; THESE PATCHES HAVE NOT GONE THROUGH A/UX QA TESTING:
- If at this point you wish to run MacTCP applications over
- the slip interface (from the slip client), and they do not work
- correctly,
- obtain the patches from afsg.apple.com via anonymous ftp in
- the file "pub/Patches.MacTCP.tar.Z" (set file type to bin before
- transferring) and copy the file to /tmp. Once obtained, do the
- following:
- 1) uncompress Patches.MacTCP.tar.Z
- 2) tar xvf Patches.MacTCP.tar.Z
- 3) cp /mac/lib/Patches/Patch.067C /mac/lib/Patches/Patch.067C.sav
- 4) cp /mac/lib/Patches/Patch.0178 /mac/lib/Patches/Patch.0178.sav
- 5) cp etc/mactcp.conf /etc/mactcp.conf
- 6) cp mac/lib/Patches/Patch.067C /mac/lib/Patches/Patch.067C
- 7) cp mac/lib/Patches/Patch.0178 /mac/lib/Patches/Patch.0178
- 8) reboot
- Restart the slip connection and try the MacTCP application again.
- (This problem will most frequently be encountered when no ethernet
- interface exists in the s|ip client machine.)
-
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- Mike Peters VOS Mail: Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com
- Consulting Systems Engineer Unix Mail: mp@az.stratus.com
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