In reply to your message of Thu, 02 Sep 2004 01:41:08 EDT:
 
| >Oh, one point of order on the MACE: if there is no link status on the
| >interface, it may fail to initialize properly. A plague of a problem in
| >MacOS, where Apple consistently coded the adev to fail the networking prefs
| >back to LocalTalk (you can imagine the havoc when a switch would go
| >offline and everyone would reboot... :-o).
| 
| That was a "smart" feature of the AppleTalk driver, and not anything 
| to do with the MACE ethernet. If you have AppleTalk turned off, and 
| TCP/IP turned on, then you can boot as many times as you want with 
| the ethernet cable unplugged and when you plug it in again, you'll 
| still be set to [built-in] ethernet, and it will work for sending 
| packets immediately without needing to do anything.

Whoops! Thanks for the errata. Maybe I was thinking of the old NuBus
Ethernet cards, which I think got their firmware loaded from the adev
at boot time...

Cheers,
	Paul

Paul Frommeyer            Work: Senior Network Engineer  pfrommeyer@deskey.com
Internet Engineer, CCIE   Play: Network Sorcerer At Large     corwin@palas.com