Re: Macintosh with Open Transport?

"Clayton L. Hines" <clhines@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Fri, 21 June 1996 13:34 UTC

Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:30:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: Macintosh with Open Transport?
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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:54:29 -0400  vannestj@oumail1.email.ohiou.edu (Jason
Vannest) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We are currently evaluating Sun's Solar Net Pc admin DHCP server.
>However, we have not had any success getting the macintosh Open
>Transport client to accept anything except its IP address.  We don't
>get the Gateway address, Subnet Mask, or DNS server address from the
>DHCP server.  Is this a problem with the macintosh client or the
>Server? Any Ideas?  Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Miami University hopes to have the AIX dhcp server in full production by 1
July.  We're also currently having trouble with Open Transport clients.  

One thing you ought to do first, to make sure that you're not being served
the information and you just can't see it -- have Open Transport obtain its
IP address, and then open the TCP/IP control panel and set Edit | User Mode
to Basic.  We've found that any other mode will display only the IP address
obtained.  

Also, make sure you don't specify in the control panel any of the settings
that you want to be served to you.  

Hope those suggestions aren't too basic.  

While I'm on the topic, we've been having problems with the Open Transport
client losing TCP/IP service entirely after about half an hour after
receiving a DHCPACK, no matter what the lease time is.  We were thinking it
might have been trying to renew, but the server doesn't show a packet
coming in at the time that the client loses service.  Any clues?  

>Also, if  anyone out there is using the Solar Net product I would be
>most interested in any of your opinions about the product.
>
>Thanks for your time in advance,
>
>Jason Vannest
>Ohio University
>vannestj@oumail1.email.ohiou.edu

Clayton L. Hines

UNIX Software Specialist                          email  HinesCL@MUOhio.edu
Miami University                                  voice        513.529.7600
Oxford, Ohio, USA                                   fax        513.529.1496

Macintosh with Open Transport? Jason Vannest
Re: Macintosh with Open Transport? Clayton L. Hines