Re: Raw Ethernet on 8.5 Problem
Re: Raw Ethernet on 8.5 Problem
- Subject: Re: Raw Ethernet on 8.5 Problem
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:55:15 -0800
--- At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:40:57 -0800, Duane Murphy wrote:
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--- At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:17:42 -0800, Duane Murphy wrote:
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>I am working on a bug in our app running on system 8.5 (happens to be on
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>a 7500 w/ G3 upgrade). Our app uses raw Ethernet connections to
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>communicate to a modem. On other systems this seems to work just fine.
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>On system 8.5, we can put packets on the wire but incoming packets are
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>not being received. This is only the case when TCP/IP has not been
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>initialized. Usually this means that TCP/IP is set to use DHCP and no one
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>has opened a TCP/IP port.
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>Our code scans for all Ethernet ports, so I dont want to be dependent on
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>TCP/IP. Is there a magic incantation that I am missing to get the
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>Ethernet driver to listen to packets?
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To follow up on this issue. In order to duplicate the situation,
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AppleTalk must not be set to Ethernet. It appears that if any of the
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system drivers opens the Ethernet driver then it starts working. What do
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I need to do to get the Ethernet driver working with out one of the other
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stacks also working.
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Which Tech Note did I miss? :-)
More testing more information. If I change AppleTalk to the Printer Port
(anything but Ethernet) and TCP/IP to DHCP, even after they have been
used, then I dont receive anything on the Ethernet port.
Mysterious.
...Duane
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