On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Brian Deuel wrote:
I recently snagged a LC-PDS ethernet card for my LC. I figured I
would get it on my network and use it as an IRC channel bot. For
some odd reason, I can ping the other machines on my network, and
ping the AT&T name servers FROM the LC, but I can't ping the LC from
any other machine, nor will Appleshare networking work with my OS 9
Pismo (neither machine shows up in their respective Choosers) or
connect via IP from the Pismo. The LC is running System 7.5.5, with
MacTCP as the networking software (I can't use Open Transport on
this machine). All of my machines are connected through a Netgear
DSL modem/router, and the LC shows up in my router "Connected
Devices" window. My MacTCP settings are all manual, with 192.168.0.9
set as the LC's IP address, Class C settings, AT&T's name servers
and my router gateway address (192.168.0.1) as the name server
settings, and 255.255.255.0 for the network mask, which matches my
router setting.
Any ideas as to what could be stopping the LC from being seen by the
other machines?
"For the ping to succeed you must first start up some Internet
application on the Mac."
MacTCP and related Macintosh software
http://www.math.niu.edu/~behr/docs/mactcp.html
MacTCP is implemented as a driver, and it sounds like it won't do
anything unless an application has the driver open. This may be a red
herring, but I'm mentioning it just in case.
What version of MacTCP do you have? The last is 2.0.6. (I'm betting
that's not the issue, either.)
Double check that your router configuration allows manually-configured
clients. Any device packaged for consumer use will ship supporting
DHCP clients; manually-configured clients might have to be explicitly
enabled. MacTCP doesn't support DHCP at all, so you'll have to stick
with manual. Make sure that MacTCP is set to use Ethernet, not
EtherTalk. The latter is some kind of encapsulation; you don't want it.
Make sure that AppleTalk is enabled in the Chooser and that the
Network control panel is set to EtherTalk, not LocalTalk. Be warned
that if you boot up without a network connected, Mac OS will helpfully
switch AppleTalk to the Printer Port. (At least, Open Transport does
that.)
I hope that helps.
Josh
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