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MacTCP Setup Page

MacTCP should be located in your Control Panels folder in your System folder. The icon should appear as it does above. If you do not have it installed in the Control Panels folder. Put it there and restart the computer. If you double click it, the panel should come up. It looks like this:

The upper half of the panel contains icons for extensions that are available for MacTCP to use when it wants to connect to a network. Possible choices are the LocalTalk icon, which you would want to use if you connect to the Internet via a LocalTalk network, the Ethernet icon, which would come in handy if you were directly connected to an ethernet backbone, and the PPP icon, which allows you to connect via a dialup line using Point to Point Protocol. You want to be sure that PPP is highlighted and that none of the others are.

Under that you should see a box for entering the IP address. If you are connecting to On-Site / SurfNJ via MacPPP you do not want to monkey with this. Our computer will give your computer a new IP address each time you dial in, so changing it from here will do you no good anyway.

Under that you should see the More... button. Hit the More... button to configure MacTCP for use with On-Site / SurfNJ.

Oh! One more thing, MacTCP displays the version number in the lower left corner. This is useful if you need to know it. Alternatively you can just highlight the MacTCP icon and select Get Info from the File menu in Finder.

You should have MacTCP 2.0.6 or 2.0.4. If you have 2.0.4, you can get a clean (unconfigured and unused) copy of MacTCP from your install disk and user the MacTCP Updater on it to update it to 2.0.6, but I haven't figured out yet what the advantage to this is. They seem identical in every respect. Still, you do have that option.

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