rzeman Posted April 2, 2002 Report Share Posted April 2, 2002 Justupgraded my Retro to 5.0 Desktop and a 5 client pack. One of my client computers is my DSL firewall (a 7600 running IPNetRouter). It's multi-homed, with 2 NICs with two public IP addresses bound to the external interface and one private IP address bound to the internal interface. All machines on the internal network are 192.168.1.x. Retrospect's broadcasts don't elicit a reply from that remote; with the public beta I was just able to plug the internal interface's IP address in the Retrospect app and it would work with no problems. However, that option seems to be, ahem, removed in Desktop. To me, it's silly to have that entire logic removed from desktop, vs not being able to enter anything not on your subnet. In the knowledge base, I see that there's a way to bind the Remote client on Windoze to a specific IP address via the Registry, but I need to see if there's a way to do it on a Mac. If not, I'll be taking advantage of the 30 day refund because, to me, that machine IS on the same subnet as the backup computer. Thanks for any and all help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted April 3, 2002 Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 What OS is the client running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzeman Posted April 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 Sorry. 9.1, with the post- 9.1 Open Transport fixes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzeman Posted April 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 Doing a little exploring with Resedit on the control panel shows an intriguing resource called "inet" in it. It has the Retro client IP port in it (497) and four fields for IP octects. HOWEVER, I can't make sense of what the values are in the four fields -32 1 0 38 I think that deciphering this code and finding the way to map them to 192.168.1.254 is the only way that I'm going to solve this problem of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 3, 2002 Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 Retrospect Client running under Mac OS 9.x does not support Multihoming. Modifications via resedit will not change this function. Retrospect Client for Mac OS 9 uses the "connect via" settings in the TCP/IP control panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzeman Posted April 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 Then Dantz better add a qualification to the "Desktop can back up machines on the same subnet" then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrenaS Posted April 3, 2002 Report Share Posted April 3, 2002 Mac OS 9 can only have a single location active at one time. When the active IP address is on the same subnet as the backup computer, Retrospect can see it and back it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzeman Posted April 4, 2002 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2002 I suppose that's all in how "active" is defined. If "the interface selected in the TCP control panel" is the definition of active, you're right. If the definition of active is sitting there processing packets on the same subnet as the backup machine and otherwise acting like the happy little Ethernet card it is, then I'm right. And by definition I'm right because if I can sit at the backup machine and do a traceroute to the machine in question and it's only one hop away, it's in the same subnet and "active." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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