On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
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.
It is a very small compromise. Just set mactcp to manual, set the address class, type in the router address and a fixed ip adress, and you are ready to go. It really isn't such a big deal.
Yes the setup of MacTCP isn't a big deal - but having to get my companies MIS people to assign a fixed IP address is the real problem. In my past company they were good about it. I haven't asked in my new company - they would probably be OK with it. I just think it's a shame to need special treatment for something that's not really a benefit to the company.
I did just think of a possible way around this :-) If I got one of those cable-internet router boxes I could create my own office LAN. Connecting the routers WAN port to the office ethernet, and the Mac to the router. I believe the router would then do the interfacing with the main DHCP server, while I could just assign my own IP on the LAN side. I guess that would put a firewall between us too!
What do you think?
On the other hand if one of those Linux geeks could just focus on re-writing MacTCP to do DHCP on system six we would all be laughing!
John
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