From: Martin Joseph (martynt_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 22:05:49 PDT
ADyson wrote:
<snip>
> It looks like you are trying to use one of the Macs as a router,
>which just won't work with the normal Mac OS's, since only one ethernet
>adapter is ever recognized. In fact, this is due in part to same "rules"
>which make it necessary to use a ethernet to localtalkbridge (either
>hardware or software), which is that ethernet takes precedence over
>localtalk. (And I specifically mean the hardware layer, not the software
>layer, i.e., AppleTalk or TCP/IP.)
>
>
Not true! Open transport networking actually does support multi-homing,
it just isn't exposed in Mac OS itself.
Try the very useful IPNetrouter at http://sustworks.com
Marty
PS it works with multiple Ethernet adapters or Wifi or localtalk (not
Macip though)...
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