AppleTalk vs. TCP/IP was: SOLVED! vserver client error 9

[Kevin Windham]

Ruslan,

AppleTalk is simply a network protocol on the same level as TCP/IP, 
IPX/SPX, or others. It was the first such protocol for the Mac, and was 
far ahead of it's time due to the fact that devices could 
auto-configure their own addresses, and they had a sort of built-in 
locator service like DNS, but no configuration required.

It is still around for backwards compatibility, and as Keith mentioned 
in another email, it is a wonderfully easy way to print to almost any 
network printer. No IP address setup required.

Now, as for MacTCP, that was an implementation of the TCP/IP protocol 
on Macs before Open Transport was introduced in System 7.5.2, if I 
remember correctly. MacTCP and Appletalk are not really brothers. They 
actually used completely separate code. However, OpenTransport did 
unify AppleTalk and TCP/IP in the sense that all network protocols were 
built on top of the Open Transport system at a lower level. That system 
was based on Mentat streams.

 From the previous discussion, it sounds that maybe GUSI is using some 
OpenTransport compatibility under OS X that is getting confused with 
the AppleTalk implementation of OS X. Maybe that is causing the library 
to fail to load. I would check there first.

HTH,
Kevin

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 02:23  PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> 1) you mean control panel "Network" and here choose Tab panel 
> "AppleTalk".
>     and here I see check box "Make AppleTalk Active", yes?
>
> 2) on my computer it is OFF.
>
> 3) I wonder why you have set it ON on your computer???
>    I am able work with Internet and local network without it,
>     so why ???
>
> 4) well, I have see that right now GUSI is tuned on TCP/IP based on
> OpenTransport protocol.
> I have see that exists some old MacTCP protocol.
> Are MacTCP and AppleTalk brothers?