Subject: Re: Odd ethernet TCP/IP problem switching between MOL and regular Mac OS
From: Christoph Ewering (eweri@uni-paderborn.de)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 00:45:19 MDT
Hello Albert!
I can not see the problem.
Under Mol you only have ONE ethernet interface, and this is emulated.
You can not switch to your real hardware ethernet, because Mol can not
use it, Linux uses the ethernet-hardware.
If you can not connect to your mail-server with mol, I think you have to
look into /etc/molrc or in MacOS TCP/IP-controlpanel if it is configured
right.
In /etc/molrc you have to setup
enet_interface: eth0
if you do not use ethertap.
Hope this helps, bye
Christoph Ewering
Albert W D'Amanda schrieb:
> Darkshadow wrote:
> >
> > This is normal, MOL uses an emulated ethernet card,
> > instead of the actual ethernet hardware you have in
> > your computer. So when you start up MOL, it switches
> > to the ethernet J9 because that's what the mac sees.
> > When you restart into the actual MacOS, you will get
> > the message that it's switching and it will switch
> > back to using ethernet built in. To manually switch
> > back, all you have to do is open the TCP/IP control
> > panel, it will do it by itself.
> >
> > Darkshadow (aka Mike)
> >
> OK. I understand that, but let me pose you a hypothetical situation.
>
> Assume that I am in In linux and using netscape navigator as my
> internet browser only, and Not for mail.
>
> In mac I am using outlook express for mail
>
> Assume that for some reason I desire to switch to outlook express for
> look-see at my mail
>
> I open MOL , But on the mac side I can not connect to my mail server
> since the ethernet connection has switched.
>
> This means that I have to leave MOL and reboot and select Mac thru
> bootX.
>
> I do not want to leave MOL. That is my dilemma and question asking.It
> seems to me that the answer is to generate a linux patch to prevent
> TCP/IP switching on the mac side when you open MOL.
>
> Of course there is a practical solution-use linux netscape mail, but
> that is not the question I am posing.
>
> albert
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