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- From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Static IP clients (Summary&Thanks)
- Message-ID: <peter-010992092831@134.7.50.3>
- Followup-To: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: NCRPDA, Curtin University
- References: <1992Aug27.174742.29500@animal.inescn.pt> <1992Aug29.183620.4326@animal.inescn.pt>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:33:52 GMT
- Lines: 35
-
- In article <1992Aug29.183620.4326@animal.inescn.pt>,
- lquinta@animal.inescn.pt (Luis Quinta) wrote:
- >
- > There is a very conclusive and final reply by a very well know mac net
- > man:
-
- This is an understatement, when is Tom going to be promoted to Godhood?
-
- > >Solutions:
- > >
- > > 1. Wait for another few years until the IETF group finally
- > > produces a MacIP "standard" that has an agreed mechanism to
- > > "fix" this non-problem (I'm one of the tardy authors :-),
- > > and then wait more years for it to be implemented in
- > > products,
- > >
- > > 2. Change to using all Dynamic addresses,
- > >
- > > 3. Change the zone names of the networks requiring Static
- > > addresses to be the same as the one FP's LocalTalk is in.
-
- Technically, there is a fourth solution, since I am writing this now, from
- a static IPed mac, in a zone outside that containing our Webster MultiPort
- Gateway. This is possible because I wrote an INIT that runs immediately
- after MacTCP that sends some interesting NBP Lookups to explain the
- situation to the MPG. I have no idea whether it would work with AIR's, but
- it can't hurt to try.
-
- If anyone is interested in this init or its pascal source code, let me
- know.
- Peter.
-
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