Re: [WinMac] Pure TCP/IP communications on Mac?
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Pure TCP/IP communications on Mac?
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 18:27:39 EST
At 6:05 PM -0500 3/4/02, hknight@geocities.com wrote:
>I handle technical issues for my school's newspaper. We run iMacs while
>the whole rest of the school runs PCs.
Good for you!
>Recently our school network
>manager disabled our access to the school's internet network because she
>claimed that our computers communicate via TCP/IP+AppleTalk and she says
>the AppleTalk component is bogging down the network.
I'll bet you $100 she's going off of old wives tales and
hasn't actually put a packet/traffic analyzer on things!
>Is there any truth to this?
Yes and no. AppleTalk is a chatty protocol, BUT the only
thing that you are doing on modern iMacs that would use it would be
printing - and you can NOT disable that.
> Whether or not there is, is it possible to
>make the computers communicate purely through TCP/IP? If so, how?
>
As long as you don't want to print - or at least print reliably, sure.
Leonard
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