On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 05:50 PM, Darren wrote:
As you are on cable I guess you are behind a router of sorts, there's a fair chance it accepts a static address.
This is true at home. In fact I have a Linksys cable/DSL router that does dhcp for my home network (and acts as a firewall IFAIK). I could turn that off, but currently it just doesn't matter because I simply use MacTCP to set a fixed ip address that's a long way from the number the dhcp starts at. This is not a problem.
What is a problem, is when I take a "guest Mac of the week" to work :-) Here we use a dhcp server for everything except the unix boxes. So I'd have to request a static ip address.
OT is needed if dhcp is the only option. Its also better supported and basicly easier, more mac like to use.
So last night I tried one of my IIci with 7.1, then update 3.0. I downloaded OT 1.1.1 and OT 1.1.2 from the apple web site (you only need install disks 1 & 2 - 3 & 4 are for PPC). These loaded OK. Then I added the drag and thread manager extension (also on the Apple web site) and the iCab web browser :-)
My Linksys router recognized my IIci, assigned it an ip address, and a name server, and I was web browsing (admittedly slowly :):) Cool! Not as cool as OS 6 but .......
Now if only OS 6 could handle OT and/or dhcp........
John
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