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"Cheap Networking" for System 6 and 7 Macs

PotatoFi said:
I'm pretty sure it's the Global Village modem, NOT the Pi Zero W. I can only connect to it at 2400 baud through MacPPP; it doesn't respond at any other speeds.
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Sounds great then! I have a US Robotics 28.8K modem that I'm going to try on some of my machines once I get the rest of the required materials.

 
Oh cool, you're gunna give it a go? We might be able to achieve a world record for "Highest amount of potatoes from one forum who have used one modem to dial another modem that is connected to a Raspberry Pi".

Now watch out... only putting 5v of voltage on the line worked for my Global Village modem, but it did not work for the 56k modem on my iMac G3. A Pololu 5v to 9v step-up converter should fit in the modem, and should fix this. I plan to buy one and integrate it.

 
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So one other complaint I have about this setup is that my Mac's IP range is wildly different from my network.

  • Macintosh SE: 193.81.130.98
  • "Gateway Address": 192.168.1.98
  • ppp0 on Raspberry Pi: 192.168.1.99
  • wlan0 on Raspberry Pi: 192.168.1.31
I'm not sure if that matters. It's probably necessary, but I don't really like it. I wish there was one IP for my Raspberry Pi, and one for my Macintosh. Part of what I don't like about using DreamPi is that it was set up by someone else, so I don't understand it.

 
"4 sold in 24 hours! Only 3 remaining."

You uh, might want to jump on that. Now.  :smiley:

Farallon products are generally pretty good.

 
I ended up buying one. I'm going to move discussion about the Farallon adapter to this thread to keep this one more on-topic about 56k dial-in and serial methods (which I am probably not done with yet).

 
I have the dreampi setup on my Macintosh plus. I use macweb 2.0 and it works and loads pages but won’t load websites unless I use the IP address of the site. It also won’t read domain names. Also I would like to set up a proxy to get rid of all the css and stuff. Any suggestions?

 
WakelessFoil said:
I have the dreampi setup on my Macintosh plus. I use macweb 2.0 and it works and loads pages but won’t load websites unless I use the IP address of the site. It also won’t read domain names. Also I would like to set up a proxy to get rid of all the css and stuff. Any suggestions?
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Sounds like a bad DNS server address?

 
That's exactly what it sounds like to me. Double-check your DNS settings in MacTCP. DNS1 should be your home router, DNS2 should be a public DNS server like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8. In fact, you probably can skip your home router and go straight for public DNS.

 
PotatoFi said:
That's exactly what it sounds like to me. Double-check your DNS settings in MacTCP. DNS1 should be your home router, DNS2 should be a public DNS server like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8. In fact, you probably can skip your home router and go straight for public DNS.
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I don’t think I even entered any DNS information. When I used the dreampi with my G3 it connected fine with no DNS information. I suppose MacTCP doesn’t obtain that information from the dreampi the way the more modern TCP/IP program does.

Just out of curiosity, why use the router address as the first DNS?

 
Lower latency, and also doesn't hand all your browsing information to Cloudflare or Google.

Also because of this thread I have had the network engineer's haiku in my head all day, so I'm going to share it here to try to get it out.  It is tangentially relevant.

dns.jpg

 
PotatoFi said:
The holy grail would be either a PDS card or SCSI card that is almost plug and play with System 6 and System 7. The problem is that there's no return on investment, there's like 5 of us that are interested in getting our compact macs online, and even in a classic Macintosh forum, people are asking "why bother". There's no business case for it, so it's highly unlikely that anyone will build it.
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Who would be crazy enough to waste their time on this!?!?! Pfft.  :lol:   :lol:   :lol:   :lol:  

https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI/wiki/Dayna-Port-SCSI-Link

 
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