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Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> wrote:

> > Well, I actually don't need to share disks, but do need to do stuff such
> > as POP3 logins, web serving etc. So far I can't even ping my mac, yet
> > both my Mac and unix box appear to be setup okay (I think, I'm new to
> > actually *doing* unix).
> 
> I have a Mac/WinNT/95/FreeBSD network (occasionally Linux appears
> also). 

Sounds promising...

> 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.  This is so
> a driver can be loaded into the system.  After this, the TCP/IP
> application can be stopped, and the Mac will respond to pings still.

That sounds like you have "Load Only When Needed" turned on, you can set
OT to be loaded at bootup, which is what I have.

> If you have subnet and IP address set up correctly on the Macintosh
> and the FreeBSD box, the first thing I would do is try NCSA Telnet
> from the Mac to FreeBSD.  After that, experiment with pinging from
> FreeBSD to the Mac.

The Mac won't connect to FreeBSD. I'm pretty sure its the server end as
I've quite happily had 2 macs running on an ethernet without any
fiddling at all.

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