Thanks for this detailed reply. None of this is mission-critical, but for what it's worth:
The eMate is networked via PhoneNet, has NIE installed and has the MacIP Newton package also installed. It is networked to an LC475's printer port. The LC475 does service as an Appletalk Router (Apple Internet Router), Print Server (Appleshare 4), and Apple IP Gateway (by the software of the same name, which has only ever been used in trials with the eMate). Ethertalk and TCP/IP are thus sharing the same ethernet card, while Appletalk also runs on the printer port. The NIC in question is an ordinary LCPDS card, trouble-free. The LC475 is running 7.1 and MacTCP, which is the stock system configuration for these various bits and pieces of software.
The LC475's ethernet port is connected to an old Hub and the Hub to an SMC Barricade g Router, which in turn accesses my ISP via an ADSL Modem. The LC475 can ping remote hosts, and not only hosts on my private network, so MacTCP on it would appear to be functional. I do not have a browser installed, so have not tried more than a ping, but the ping's the thing for our purposes.
The SMC Router has an address of 192.168.2.1; the LC475 has manual addressing in its MacTCP panel set at 192.168.2.60, with Gateway at 192.168.2.1 and its DNS servers set at what my Router returns if I log into it (its gets its address via DHCP). Oh, and Subnets in MacTCP are set at 255.255.255.0 .
MacIP on the eMate is set to get an address from my Apple IP Gateway (the LC475), and it does so (this is reported as it happens on the eMate). I have tried various DNS server settings on the eMate's Internet Setup - my ISP's are those set at the moment; I have also tried my SMC router and the LC475 itself; the results are the same whatever I do. I am not sure what else to tell you. As I say, the eMate gets its IP address from the LC475 - I have set a range, and it takes the first of the available numbers - but connection to the WAN fails at the DNS lookup stage, i.e., when it tries to resolve an address. It also fails (with a different error message re. network connection having failed) if I simply enter a known IP address of a server in the eMate's browser, NetHopper.
The trouble might be the MacIP software on the eMate; I have read success stories on the NewtTalk discussion list archive, but also complaints about MacIp on the Newton platform, in which the need to use a proxy DNS server was mentioned (that I have not tried, as I don't honestly know what it is - at this stage on life's way, anyway).
Maybe I should just use a good old modem and phone jack....
The eMate is networked via PhoneNet, has NIE installed and has the MacIP Newton package also installed. It is networked to an LC475's printer port. The LC475 does service as an Appletalk Router (Apple Internet Router), Print Server (Appleshare 4), and Apple IP Gateway (by the software of the same name, which has only ever been used in trials with the eMate). Ethertalk and TCP/IP are thus sharing the same ethernet card, while Appletalk also runs on the printer port. The NIC in question is an ordinary LCPDS card, trouble-free. The LC475 is running 7.1 and MacTCP, which is the stock system configuration for these various bits and pieces of software.
The LC475's ethernet port is connected to an old Hub and the Hub to an SMC Barricade g Router, which in turn accesses my ISP via an ADSL Modem. The LC475 can ping remote hosts, and not only hosts on my private network, so MacTCP on it would appear to be functional. I do not have a browser installed, so have not tried more than a ping, but the ping's the thing for our purposes.
The SMC Router has an address of 192.168.2.1; the LC475 has manual addressing in its MacTCP panel set at 192.168.2.60, with Gateway at 192.168.2.1 and its DNS servers set at what my Router returns if I log into it (its gets its address via DHCP). Oh, and Subnets in MacTCP are set at 255.255.255.0 .
MacIP on the eMate is set to get an address from my Apple IP Gateway (the LC475), and it does so (this is reported as it happens on the eMate). I have tried various DNS server settings on the eMate's Internet Setup - my ISP's are those set at the moment; I have also tried my SMC router and the LC475 itself; the results are the same whatever I do. I am not sure what else to tell you. As I say, the eMate gets its IP address from the LC475 - I have set a range, and it takes the first of the available numbers - but connection to the WAN fails at the DNS lookup stage, i.e., when it tries to resolve an address. It also fails (with a different error message re. network connection having failed) if I simply enter a known IP address of a server in the eMate's browser, NetHopper.
The trouble might be the MacIP software on the eMate; I have read success stories on the NewtTalk discussion list archive, but also complaints about MacIp on the Newton platform, in which the need to use a proxy DNS server was mentioned (that I have not tried, as I don't honestly know what it is - at this stage on life's way, anyway).
Maybe I should just use a good old modem and phone jack....