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- From: Joe Niski <niski@ssd.intel.com>
- Subject: Re: MacTCP & ARA ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.062302.23122@SSD.intel.com>
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- References: <1992Aug14.225232.2756@bnr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:23:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.225232.2756@bnr.ca> Ben Schmidt, bschmidt@bnr.ca
- writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Where's the aggravation? Dynamic IP addressing isn't allowed here, and
- an increasing number of ARAP'ed Macs are using things like Eudora and
- NCSA Telnet. i guess it could get more difficult as the number of Macs
- goes up.
-
- ---------------------------------------------
- Joe Niski niski@ssd.intel.com
- Macintosh Network Admin.
- Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
- Beaverton, OR USA
-