First Question: Is there any trick to getting TCP/IP working in System 7.5.3? I seem to have it enabled and I assigned the computer an IP, but I can't ping it. I also have no way (that I know of) of pinging some other machine from the Macintosh. Is there maybe an extension disabled? What would be the name of it?
I was having a look at this link:
http://www.vintagemacworld.com/mactcpip.htmlMacs using MacTCP or Open Transport with the default settings do not load the TCP/IP protocol on startup. TCP/IP is only loaded into memory when an application that uses TCP/IP is run. The Mac will only respond to a ping request if you have already run an application that uses TCP/IP.
That might be one of the strangest things I've heard. So, it looks like TCP/IP might be working, I just have to be running a program that uses it.
I'm going to have to test this out another day. Punching metal is more important than my experiments at this time. I also think I found a version of
Stuffit that fits on a diskette.
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