I know somewhere in Open Transport is a setting to force it to keep the connection active or alive or loaded all the time. I used it when networking between Windows and mac because the #$^$^^ Macs were always shutting down their TCP/IP Ethernet connections and wouldn't wake up when other computers needed access to their shared resources.
Anyway, find that, set that on and your TCP/IP connection will fire up during boot and *stay on* without first having to run something on the Mac that accesses the network. --- On Wed, 11/10/10, dale-gmail <[email protected]> wrote: From: dale-gmail <[email protected]> Subject: Re: LC networking problem To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:33 PM this is very interesting... I have performed some tests on a LCIII with PDS card (M2460Z/A) connected to a d-link dss-8+ to a buffalo router to a DSL modem. all addresses are from my configuration. open transport is setup with manual address (192.168.1.56) mask 255.255.255.0 [unfortunately classic networking is blocked from running on the LCIII] gateway address 192.168.1.1(router lan address) DNS server name "lciii.homer" address 192.168.1.1(saves having to change DNS addresses if it changes) only one entry and set to default. lciii is name of the LCIII and homer is local domain. iCab works great, although slow. pinging from a remote computer on the same LAN gets no response (times out) until iCAb is brought up once and then the ping works (responds) until the next boot/reboot.. I suspect macTCP should work the same way.. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
