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- From: Ben Schmidt <bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt)>
- Subject: Re: MacTCP & ARA ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.225232.2756@bnr.ca>
- X-Xxdate: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:52:30 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug7.210226.25241@ornl.gov>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:52:32 GMT
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- Subject: MacTCP & ARA ?
- From: Jamey Maze, jnm@tdum.CTD.ORNL.GOV
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 21:02:26 GMT
- In article <1992Aug7.210226.25241@ornl.gov> Jamey Maze,
- jnm@tdum.CTD.ORNL.GOV writes:
- >I setup an ARA test with one PowerBook dialing into another. This first
- >PB had no network connections; the second was connected to a LocalTalk,
- >which was connected to the company internet via a Fastpath. AppleTalk
- >stuff worked lovely! So I proceeded to try MacTCP. I manually configured
- >an IP address known to the Fastpath in the remote PB, selected Remote
- >Only from the Network Control Panel, selected Remote from MacTCP (not
- >necessarily in that order), and tried making some connections. The
- >problem was when I tried to make a connection and the target host tried
- >arp'ing for my hardware address, no one responded. So next, I changed
- >the IP address of my remote PB to match that of the PB to which I was
- >dialing into. Now the arp's are being answered, but connections were
- >still timing out. Can someone tell me how this is supposed to work?
- >Ideally, each remote Mac should have its own IP address rather than
- >having to set it up to match that of the ARA server (don't you think?).
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- >--
- >Jamey Maze | Computing & Telecommunications Division
- >Oak Ridge National Lab | Advanced Technology Group
- >P.O. Box 2008, MS-6238 | Internet: jnm@ornl.gov
- >Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6238 | 615/574-6355, FAX 615/574-9646
- >
- >"The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to
- > make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals.
- > It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as
- > human obligations." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
-
- Subject: Re: MacTCP & ARA ?
- From: Barry Kort, barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu
- Date: 10 Aug 92 22:02:29 GMT
- In article <BARRY.92Aug10180229@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> Barry Kort,
- barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu writes:
- >If you plan to use MacTCP via ARA, then do not also install MacTCP
- >on the machine acting as the ARA Server. Perhaps in a future
- >release it will be possible for both the ARA Server and its ARA
- >Clients to run MacTCP, but at present only one of them can be using
- >MacTCP.
-
- Huh!?
-
- Jamey's scenario works fine - with one minor caution. Use "Server"
- mode acquisition of IP addresses on the Remote Mac's MacTCP.
- (And of course ensure that the FastPath is configured to hand out
- at least some of the IP addresses it's administering dynamically.)
- Save yourself some aggrevation and don't bother trying to get a static
- IP address to work on an ARAP-Remoted Mac.
-
- Once the remote Mac establishes an ARAP connection, open your favourite
- MacTCP-based app on the remote Mac. This will cause the Remote Mac's
- MacTCP to do an NBP LkUp for IPGATEWAY, find the FastPath, and obtain
- a dynamic IP address as per the MacIP protocol.
-
- Whether the answering Mac has MacTCP installed or not is irrelevant.
-
- --
- Ben Schmidt,P.Eng Network Applications, Bell-Northern Research
- bschmidt@bnr.ca FAX:613-763-3283 /* My opinions, not BNR's */
-