On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
Last place I worked I managed to get my MIS group to assign me a fixed network IP address. That worked fine using the Manual settings in MacTCP. Is there a way to avoid this and just use the DHCP server instead?
No. You can't avoid it. It is not really a big deal though. Manual setting the fixed IP address and the router address is easy. In my experience mactcp 2.06 is a pretty trustworthy performer with system > 6.
Well Marten, this is very disappointing. So the catch 22 is that, if I want to use the speed of OS 6, I have to compromise my ability to network my Mac in a modern environment. Since I have always regarded the networking abilities of Mac's as one of their key advantages, this seems a bitter choice. Even my home network runs on a DHCP server/router box.
Since it can be done with Open Transport, it just comes down to software (or lack of it). I guess we need somebody to re-write MacTCP for the modern world.
John
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