MacTCP Administrators Guide

·~Apple MacTCP Administrator's Guide Product Marketing Networking and Communications Publications AppleTalk Documentation February 1, 1989 Apple Confldeotial ( S APPIJ! CoMPT.Tl'ER, INC. This manual is copyriglted by Apple er by Apple's suppliers, with all rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, th.is manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the wrlten c:onselX of Apple (.omputer, Ioc. This exception does ncx allow copies to be made for others, whether or ncx sold, but all of the material purchased may be sold, given, or lent to aoother person. Under the law, copying includes translating into ancxher language. The Apple logo is a regisrered trademark d Apple Computer, Inc. Use of the "keybaard" Apple logo (Opti>n-Shift-K) for commercial purposes without the prior wrillen consent of Apple may c:omtitute trademark infringement and unfair competition in relation 6f federal and state Jaws. ~ Apple Computer, Ioc., 1989 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertiro, CA 95014 (4~) 996-1010 Apple, the Apple logo, AppleTalk, EtherTalk, LaserWriter, l.oC2II'alk, Macintosh, and MacTCP are regisrered trademarks d Apple Computer, Inc. ii Apple Coofidential C 0 N T E N T S Contents About This Gulde xiii Who should read this guide xiv How to use this guide xiv f Conventions xv ' What yoo need xvi Associated documeIXS xvi Part I Apple Confidential Concepts 1 About MacTCP Overview 2 1 Network environment DDP-IP gateway 4 3 iii .. \ 2 About TCP/IP 5 The family ci protocols 7 Iruernet Protcx:ol (IP) 9 Transmission Control Protocol \I'CP) 10 User Datagram Protocol (UDP) 10 Telnet 11 File Transfer Protcx:ol (FTP) 11 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) 11 3 TCP/IP Addressing Conventions Internet addresses 14 Subnetwork addressing 16 Subnetwork masks 18 The domain name system 19 13 Addres.5 Resolution Prcxocol (ARP) 21 Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) 22 Boexstrap Protocol (BoolP) 23 4 Routing 25 Gateways 26 Routing tables Z7 Routing protocols 28 Routing Information Protocol (RIP) 28 Iruemet Comd Mwage Protocol OCMP) 28 iv Contents Apple Confidential ( Part II Procedures 5 Installation 29 MacTCP scitware 30 Creating a master cmk 31 user installation in.structm 35 lNlalling Macro> on a fk>ppy disk-based system 35 lNlalling MacTCP en a hard disk 36 6 MacTCP Configuration Configuratioo tools 40 39 The MacTCP Corurol Panel 41 The Administrator dialog box 43 Obtain Address box 43 IP Address box 44 Routing Information box 44 Domain Name Server Information box « Protected button « c:onfiguration scenarias 45 Bringing up the MacTCP Control Panel 47 Entering the IP address in decimal rotation 48 Bringing up the Administrator dialog 49 Setting the IP address SO Setting the address manually 51 Setting the addtcss ~ 51 Settins the subnet mask 53 Selling the IP address (integer format) 53 Entering the net number 54 Enlering the subnet number 54 Entering the node number 54 Having the address set auromatically 56 Setti…