Re: [WinMac] 2 IP addresses on Mac

Liam Helmer(liamh[at]axion.net)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:55:10 -0800

Hey there Tim,

It looks like you just got a whole lot of advice that isn't actually
applicable to your problem. Unfortunately, if you want to connect to the
internet and connect to a tcp/ip network, OT only natively recognizes ONE
TCP/IP connection. If you want to connect to more than one TCP/IP interface
like you're talking about, you need to get another program to do it. For
instance, IPNetRouter will do a good job of this, allowing you bring up the
PPP Connection while keeping the network running. What you can do is just
bring up IPNetRouter instead of connecting, and set it up to automatically
dial and connect to the internet when you launch it.

Vicom Internet Gateway will also do this, but it's more expensive, and might
be overkill in this case.

My personal suggestion would be to have a separate server machine to do the
dialing up and do NAT for computers on the network... it's easy to set up
and makes things a whole lot simpler for you...

Cheers,
Liam Helmer
Macintosh Specialist/Technical Support
Axion Internet Communication, Inc.
Tel: (604) 605-4506
Fax: (604) 687-8130
E-mail: jvictor@axion.net
http://www.axion.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Protsman <protsman@christianliving.net>
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
Cc: casper@nb.net <casper@nb.net>; kulyk@macspectrum.com
<kulyk@macspectrum.com>
Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [WinMac] 2 IP addresses on Mac

At 11:25 AM -0500, 2/28/99, thus spake Tim Scoff:
> > My client has 3 G3's and one 8600 all running OS 8.1 on a 100 BASE T
> > network attached to an NT 4sp3 server.
> > They use TCP/IP to attach to the server via DAVE.
> > They all have their own modems to dial the internet.
> > When the want to dial the internet they have to select another IP
> > configuration from the TCP/IP control panel. They find this too
> > cumbersome.
> > I was wondering if there was a simple inexpensive way to simplify this.
> > i.e. 2 active IP addresses on the Mac at the same time.

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