TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) is the set of rules (protocols) used to connect hosts on the Internet. This guide shows you how to configure your Mac so that you will be able to access the Internet through the Netopia and Cayman routers.

Click here to see instructions for establishing a telnet session from a Macintosh.

More information about configuring your Macintosh for TCP/IP connectivity through a Netopia Router can be found in Technote NIR_026 "Open Transport and Netopia Routers."

Assumptions

You are running Open Transport.

You have Built-in Ethernet, or a third party Ethernet card and its associated drivers installed in your Macintosh.

Step-by-Step Configuration

1. Go to your Apple Menu. Select Control Panels and then TCP/IP.
2. With the TCP/IP window open, go to the Edit Menu and select User Mode.
   Choose Advanced and click OK.
3. In the TCP/IP window, select or type information
   into the fields as shown in the following screen.

   

4. These are the only fields that you need to modify in this screen.
5. Close the TCP/IP Control Panel and Save the settings.

Configuration Using DHCP

1. Go to your Apple Menu. Select Control Panels and then TCP/IP.
2. With the TCP/IP window open, go to the Edit Menu and
   select User Mode. Choose Advanced and click OK.
3. In the TCP/IP window, next to Connect via: select Ethernet.
4. Next to Configure: select Using DHCP Server.
5. For DHCP Client ID: you can input the router ethernet address, but this isn't necessary. DHCP is detected automatically.
6. Leave Search domains: blank.
7. The other fields will be detected automatically.
8. Close the TCP/IP Control Panel and Save the settings.

Configuration Running O S X

Apple Menu...
System Preferences...
Network...

In the TCP/IP window, select or type information into the fields as shown in the sample configuration. Naturally, you will want to configure this to conform to the IP addressing on your network.

Telnet Access on the Macintosh

1. Open your Telnet application.
2. In the Host/Session Name, enter the LAN Ethernet IP address and click on Connect.
3. At the login prompts, enter the name: and the password: if these have been configured in the router.
4. Once correctly entered, the Main Menu for the router configuration screens will appear.

Please Note: Should you get a prompt on the screen in the form of a "pound" sign (#), simultaneously press control  n. (The Apple "command" key will not respond for this). This will bring up the Main Menu. To revert back to the menu default setting, at the # prompt, type preferences console default menu and press return. Now simultaneously hit control  n and you will now be in the menu mode.