Hi, I've been having a lot of fun fooling around with a Centris 650 running OS v. 7.5 recently, and now I'd like to configure it to use my DSL-based home LAN. This is (nearly) the first Mac I've used so I beg your patience.
I'm using an Asante FriendlyNET connector to go between the AAUI jack and the router/hub (a recent-model SMC wireless access point with a few ethernet ports). The Asante hardware is used, and I can't rule out failure for this piece. Its power LED shows yellow, connectivity LED shows greeen. Router lights up appropriate light when I plug in the ethernet cable. The only internet-related software this machine has at all is AOL 4 - I'll fix that problem as soon as I'm connected and can download (I understand Open Transport would be a good place to start)- so my tools for troubleshooting are limited. The AppleTalk software is v. 58.1.3, Ethertalk 2.5.3 and MacTCP is 2.0.6 AppleTalk is enabled and the Network Control Panel is set to EtherTalk and reports No Zones Available. I've deleted the MacTCP DNS file and MacTCP Prefs file a few times so that MacTCP can build them from scratch. Anyhow, I'm trying to set the correct values in MacTCP, but most of the info I find online seems dated and doesn't assume a home LAN and the network address translation & DHCP that routers for the home provide today. If someone who uses MacTCP on a machine connected to a router with DHCP enabled could walk through their settings with me, I'd really appreciate it. I've selected Ethernet and More in the first MacTCP window. If the "Obtain Address" field in the next window is set to Manual, then I set the IP address in the previos window to 192.168.2.55 as the last step before rebooting. I've been able to ping the machine this way while AOL tries to connect. But I think this field should be set to Dynamic since my router uses DHCP. My router has not yet recognized (read: it does not list the hardware address like it does for the other machines that are connected, and does not count it in its count of connected machines) that the Mac is connected regardless of what I choose here. Next up: Gateway address. My understanding is that MacTCP can figure this out, so I've tried 0.0.0.0 (since it wants something). Also 192.168.2.1, which is the LAN IP address of the router (doing ipconfig on a windows machine of ifconfig on Linux reports that value too) as opposed to the gateway address my LAN uses in its WAN configuration for connecting to my DSL provider. Class: MacTCP should figure this out based on the first number of whatever IP address it gets, right? Subnet Mask: setting to 255.255.255.0, since all the other clients connecting to my router do this. I think I skip the Bits / Net / Subnet / Node settings that follow because I don't get them (so that couldn't possible be the problem ;-) ) and since they seem to get set automatically based on whatever else I choose. Last field: Domain Name Server info. OK, here I'm confused. MacTCP wants both a domain name and an IP address for one or more such servers, and for me to identify one as the default. My thinking is that I should simply skip the domain name, and give the LAN IP address (as opposed to the WAN IP address) of the router - which is known to its clients as 192.168.2.1 - instead of, say, the domain name (ns1.net1plus.com) and corresponding IP address of my ISP's name server. Alternately I have tried the IP address by which my router is known to the world (it's a static address) and even given the domain name that my ISP knows that router as (a name constructed from my router's IP address). The only combination of settings that have returned a ping and for which AOL does not explicit complain about the settings is setting the "Obtain address" to manual. But I still can't complete the connection - here's what happens. I use the advanced preferences in AOL's login window to set up its TCP/IP settings (because AOL's "TCP script" fails to find the hardware): For "Firewall" I give 192.168.2.1 and port 88 (not sure that's right - it's the port I use for the Web-based interface for configuring it). I've also tried entering the WAN IP by which the router is known to the world. AOL starts connecting, says it's checking the password, blinkenlights blink lazily for the correct ethernet port on my router, I can ping the machine, and ... then AOL reports that AOL could not complete the connection. Meanwhile the router does nothing in its web interface to reflect that another machine is connected to it. Logs on this router are minimal and not helpful. AOL logs are just silly. A colleague at work promises Netscape 3.x software on CD - ROM for me to try on Friday. That's all I know. Anyone? -George Leominster, MA -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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