All of the problems I can remember seening with Macs and TC's not getting along had to do with FreePPP. Open Transport PPP seems to work just fine for us. FreePPP is old and dead at this point, and there are known documented problems with it playing nice with certain revs of HiPer ARC code. If they have MacTCP instead of Open Transport, upgrade them to MacOS 7.5.3 or 7.6.1, both downloadable for free from Apple because 7.1 and earlier have Y2K problems. 7.6.1 will run on just about any Mac, and 7.5.3 runs on the few that won't take 7.6.1. (Hell, 7.5.3 will even run on a Mac Plus or a Mac SE, if it has enough RAM...) 7.6.1 should have Open Transport in it already. I don't remember if it has OT/PPP. But that's the combination you want... Expecting MacOS 7.1 to do anything well is about in line with expecting Windows 3.1 to do anything well -- it can be made to behave if you *really* want to try to find the right combo of software, but it's a pain in the ass. Whether it's worth it or not is up to you. (Remember used iMacs are approaching $500 if they're not already there...) Apple's v.90 modems are Conexant (Rockwell) based, so having their latest drivers helps. But if you're on a MacOS 7.1 box, you're not dealing with an Apple v.90 modem anyway. Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville www.fark.com: If it's not news, it's Fark. (Or something like that.) On Wed, 31 May 2000, Jeff Binkley wrote:
Everyone,
We continue to struggle with certain MAC computers connecting to our TC racks. The struggle is often on older MACs (prior to version 8) which don't always come with a browser and sometimes not even a PPP stack. Our latest problem child is a Mac Quadra 610 with 7.1 on it . I am wodering what folks are doing to provide software to MAC customers. We have a CDROM burner and we have the HyCD software which supposedly burns MAC CDROMs ( we downlaod the software off of the Internet and then burn the CDs) but we have had limited success with this. What are others doing to deal with the MACs ?
THanks,
Jeff Binkley ASA Network Computing
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