Re: Network progress!

[Kirk Mitchell <kmitchel@nyx.net>]

RichardK-PB <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote:

: IPNR worked. DNS resolution worked.

It does.  Marinetti DNS sometimes doesn't.  LANceGS needed a new driver to
work.  MacIP... I'm beginning to wonder if it didn't require actual IP #'s
to work... It's been more than a year since I had it  working.

: I'm going to try the IIgs again later and it may or may not work. 
: However, I think the problem lies in the fact that my IIgs is running 
: off the AppleShare server on the same machine providing IPNR - possibly 
: the problem lies in the AppleTalk port being needed for MacIP /and/ the OS.

I don't think so.  I had AS Server 3.0 running with LocalTalk Bridge and
had both working.

: Anyone have experience of netbooting and networking like this? I think 
: yet another prod in the direction of CFFA or more determined hunting for 
: SCSI. Since it looks like my humble little ROM 03 is about to aquire a 
: Transwarp as well..

I wasn't netbooting in this case.  I did have a small LocalTalk network at
school that did, but the only problem I remember was a prefixing problem
with Spectrum that I think Ewen worked out after I told him about it.

You'll like the Transwarp.  Even with  super fast emulation though, I
still prefer my GS for this text oriented stuff.  

-- 
Kirk