>I'm confused as to why you consider this a bad thing.

As I expained in another post, the fact that the computer always try 
to connect via TCP/IP force us to change the settings of TCP/IP to 
ethernet, and back to ppp when we want to surf the web.

>That behavior has nothing to do with the NetAtalk distribution. 
>That's how Apple DESIGNED AppleShare-over-IP to work. TCP doesn't 
>have a method to find servers via the chooser, so that part is done 
>in AppleTalk mode. When you connect to the server, your computer 
>asks the other computer if it supports AFP-over-IP, and if so, it 
>switches to that protocol for the rest of the connection. This is 
>because connecting via TCP is *MUCH* faster than connecting via 
>AppleTalk, when you're using NetAtalk or AppleShareIP (or OSX 
>Server). If the server is another MacOS 9 computer using Personal 
>FileShare, then TCP is actually slower, but that's just because 
>there's no "real" support for being a TCP server, it just uses an IP 
>bridge extension to let you connect via IP. The reason for that is 
>so that you can actually connect to servers over the Internet.
>
>Also, it's not limited to OS9...OS8.1 and up should try to connect 
>via TCP whenever the option is there :-).
>

I didn't know about this behavior. Thank you for those tech precisions.

Jerome Duquennoy
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