Re: Virtual PC, MacIP & LocalTalk

Kyle Johnson(kyle.johnson[at]duke.edu)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:08:27 +0200

At 2:29 AM -0400 7/11/98, Charlie Garrison wrote:
>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)?

Because VirtualPC and the Mac environment need each need their own unique
IP address, you won't be able to use IP in the VPC environment with this
setup. That is because the Vicom Gateway acts as a pseudo-bootp server for
localtalk nodes, so it isn't possible to have two IP addresses. I don't
know about SoftWindows, but you may have better luck there, as the older
versions at least didn't require their own IP address (I don't think - it's
been awhile).

Kyle

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Across the router, over the gateway... nothing but NET.

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