On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 03:10 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > On a related note, I see that the OS X Network preference panel has as > one of its configurations "Using DHCP with manual IP address," which > sounds exactly like what I'm trying to do. But if I use that > configuration I lose my internet connection. I can't find any > documentation on that setting. Do you know what it's for and how to > use it?
I think that's for the case when you want a particular network device to have a static IP, but still get routing and DNS information from the DHCP server. File servers and gateways are sometimes set up this way. It's probably the case that your router isn't set up to provide such information to a device that doesn't request an IP number. I'd try a different ftp client before spending a lot of time messing with the configuration. I gave up on Anarchie because it had troubles maintaining a connection to the version of WU-ftpd that was installed on erdos at that time. Fetch worked fine, but I usually use scp these days because I'm paranoid about sending unencrypted passwords out into the world. Mac OS X comes with scp installed, and it works great. -- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
