Re: Connecting one Unix Box to a Mac Ethernet

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From: Joel Klecker
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 00:00

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In article <cmott-0705972142270001@192.168.0.5>, cmott@srv.net (Charles
Mott) wrote:

>I have a Mac/WinNT/95/FreeBSD network (occasionally Linux appears
>also).  There is a peculiarity to the Mac in that at least one TCP/IP
>application (NCSA Telnet, Fetch, etc.) has to have been started up
>before the Mac will actually respond to external pings.

That's true of MacTCP, but not necessarily true of Open Transport TCP/IP,
with OT, there is a checkbox in the "TCP/IP" control panel called "load
only when needed" if this is unchecked, the TCP/IP stack will load at
bootup instead.
-- 
Joel Klecker (mailto:jk@esperance.com)     <URL:http://www.esperance.com/>
The [US] Senate trying to govern cyberspace is analogous to King George
believing he could still govern the colonies even though he had never been
there. -- John Perry Barlow

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From: jk@esperance.com (Joel Klecker)
Subject: Re: Connecting one Unix Box to a Mac Ethernet
Date: 1997/05/08
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