school is phasing out support for appletalk. i disable appletalk. the tcp/ip cp is on dhcp setting. subsequently opening the tcp cp shows router and mask entries missing while ip is retained. after a bit the ip changes to 169.xxx.xxx. network is then inaccessible. however with appletalk still disabled, i can manually input info into tcp/ip cp and get it to work question is, must appletalk be enabled in order for dhcp on the tcp/ip cp to work? why? i vaguely remember it said that some subroutines for tcp/ip is coded into the appletalk cp. sounds weird. help ps: should virtual memory be enabled?

In answer to your last question, yes, VM should normally be enabled unless you're using a program that specifically tells you not to use it (ViaVoice for example). As for your main question, DHCP should not be affected at all by Appletalk. Is it a specific computer that's having this problem or is it all the Macs? I can't believe they're phasing out Appletalk without upgrading to OSX - you do realise that means you'll have to manually type in the IP of every share you want to access. Admittedly after you've done it once you can create desktop aliases, but what about printing?? I don't think OS9 supports non-appletalk printing at all!

all computers. yes i realize that that shares will be difficult to mount. however, there is an app...desktop printer utility, that sets up printers thru ip. comes with the installation disk here is a typical scenario... http://www.engin.umich.edu/caen/news/ Volume_18/mar-apr/backbone.shtml the protocols are history