[iyonix-support] Re: Success (was No Internet now)

On 11 Mar, David W Mills <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>AUN, Access and Internet all enabled (green dot below)
>
>I'm beginning to feel abit more confident about undderstanding the behaviour
>of things so might have a go at turning things off to see what the result
>is. Starting with Access then AUN.

Access is only used for communication between Acorns (file and printer
sharing) so if you only have one Acorn on your network then you don't
need it. I have this on here where we've got multiple machines; off on
the one at home.

>
>It is this AUN thing that puzzles me...I've never seen it before...suspect I
>turned it on when I first tried to get things going.

Could be wrong, but I think this relates to the old Econet network
hardware. I'd be surprised if anybody is using that these days (other
than a few enthusiasts who never throw hardware away ;-)). I've got it
turned off both here and at home.


>in the routing window I have also got  "Act as an IP router" ticked
>
>What does this do? What is Route D?
>

Do not turn this on. Somebody once did that on a machine I manage
(remotely!) in Cairo and it was a hell of a job getting it sorted out
because they didn't know what they had done.

This option requires the RouteD module which is not normally supplied.
This resulted in the boot process not completing properly and they were
left with the display unconfigured and blank!

It's used to allow a RISC OS machine with multiple network interfaces to
act as a router.



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