Be wary of misinformation.

Gabriel Lawrence(gabe[at]ne.mediaone.net)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:34:33 +0200

>I have a client with a few Macs on a LocalTalk network using the Vicom
>gateway to access the net. Is there any way to get VirtualPC (used for 'net
>banking) to use OpenTransport and MacIP rather than using the ethernet
>adaptor? If it is not possible with VirtualPC then how about SoftWindows
>(or any others)?

I use Vicom's gateway on one Mac and on another networked Mac running
Virtual PC, I regularly run Netscape and FTP. It works just fine. If you
just need vanilla net access to do your online banking, I don't think
you'll need to worry about MacIP etc. As far as VPC is concerned, you have
a PC on the internet, period.

>Vicom's product relies on DHCP, and VPC does not support DHCP on both
>the mac IP stack and the windows IP stack.

This is wrong. Vicom has long supported both static addressing and DHCP.

>Stustainable Software's IPNetRouter does not use TCP/IP, so it should
>be fine. $89, US, for the product, downloadable from the web.

Doesn't use TCP/IP? Why do you think it's called "IP"NetRouter? Of couse
it uses TCP/IP! The difference between the two products is that
IPNetRouter uses the Open Transport TCP/IP protocol stack while Vicom uses
their own. As far as I know both products work though IPNetRouter is
cheaper and slightly less mature and/or polished. Vicom's product, though
a bit more expensive, fully supports multiple ethernet cards and firewalls.

=Gabe

Gabriel Lawrence
Mac/Windows/Java Software Development
Bullseye Software -:-:- 781-721-1410
mailto:gabe@ne.mediaone.net

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