User guide

62 Macintosh Computers
Configuring Your Macintosh
To configure a Macintosh, you create a networking configuration, a stored
collection of settings that enables your computer and Tri-Mode Phone
(“modem”) to make a particular type of data connection. A networking
configuration includes three types of settings (or sub-configurations):
Remote Access, modem, and TCP/IP.
In addition to configurations for packet and/or asynchronous-with-PPP
data, you could create optional networking configurations to help you
connect efficiently, depending on your circumstances. For example, you
could make separate networking configurations for
■ Multiple SPs or ISPs that you use (with different name servers, phone
numbers, or preferences)
■ Making calls in Globalstar-only or cellular-only mode
■ Any combination of Globalstar data types, SPs/ISPs, or modes
For example, to use packet data service with two different SPs and
asynchronous/PPP data with a third SP, you could set up three separate
networking configurations.
You decide whether setting up optional networking configurations is
convenient.
Do I need to set up a networking configuration?
For this type of Globalstar data
service:
Networking configuration needed?
Packet data (PPP) connections
Example: browsing the Internet or
sending e-mail
Yes
A networking configuration is required to
make a packet data connection.
Asynchronous connections that
access packet (PPP) data
Example: dialing into a modem behind a
firewall, then accessing a corporate
intranet
Yes
A separate networking configuration is
required to make an asynchronous
connection—if you will use it to access
PPP data.
Asynchronous connections with no
PPP data
Example: dialing into a BBS
No
No networking configuration required —
just use a terminal emulator application
and connect using a serial port. For
details, go to: page 75.