Good suggestion. I thought of that, except that the 3Com 3C589D has an
"all-in-one" Ethernet cable that connects it directly to the hub. It doesn't
have an Xjack or other such connector which would allow me to use a
crossover cable.
- Dave
On 3/27/02 11:27 AM, "Stephen Jendraszak" <stevehj_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> This may sound pretty simple, but have you tried connecting with a
> crossover cable? Once you found out whether that worked or not, it would
> settle the question of whether the computers or the router is to blame
> once and for all. Then you would know where to concentrate your
> troubleshooting.
>
> sj
>
> On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 08:44 AM, David Abramowitz wrote:
>
>>
>> Newt and PB are fed from the same router, and they both have
>> 192.168.253.x
>> addresses (Newt is 110 and PB is 100). PB gets its address from the
>> Gatelock
>> (firewall/router/DHCP), and since Newt can't I give it a fixed IP in the
>> Internet Setup. But AFAIK the Dock app does not use the Internet Setups,
>> correct?
>>
>> I also continue to have an issue getting NewtFTP to connect to the PB
>> (which
>> has FTP checked in Sharing). This also does not work. I even tried
>> configuring the Gatelock box to route all port 21 (FTP) traffic to the
>> PB -
>> no success.
>>
>> At this point, NCU is much more important to me, so I'd really like to
>> get
>> it going.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>> On 3/26/02 5:41 PM, "Simon Roberts" <srob_at_mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> on 26.03.2002 23:06, David Abramowitz at underdog_at_erols.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Interesting. I tried telling the firewall to route all 49252 traffic
>>>> to my
>>>> PowerBook, where NCU is running, but still no dice. Damn.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ummm. I think that I am right in saying that NCU over Ethernet is
>>> going to
>>> be using AppleTalk and not TCP/IP. Now, I don't know enough about
>>> AppleTalk
>>> (actually I know nothing about AppleTalk!) to know whether it has
>>> something
>>> equivalent to TCP/IP ports. However, it is likely that your firewall's
>>> idea
>>> of what a port is is very much something that is specific to IP.
>>>
>>> Are your PowerBook and Newton the same side of the firewall? If not,
>>> why
>>> not? If they are on the same side of the firewall, are they on
>>> different
>>> subnets? If so, then you might have a router problem. You will need to
>>> get
>>> your router to route the AppleTalk protocol. Some do not do this by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> --
>>> Simon Roberts
>>> Berlin, Germany
>>>
>>
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