On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 11:09 AM, John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Although MacTCP doesn't support DHCP, it will work with the earlier RARP and BootP protocols. RARP is more or less obsolete but many DHCP servers also support BootP so it will be worth asking.
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!
This may work. Network Address translation works fine on simple networks but it can break when used on anything bigger. Be very careful whenever you attach a DHCP server to anybody else's network. Configure it so that it will only allocate an IP address to your Mac, not to other computer's in the office.
Phil
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