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Open Transport for Mac OS 7.5.5 - 8.6

There are 3 Control Panels used to configure Open Transport/PPP. All three are located in the Control Panels folder in the Apple Menu.

Open Transport/PPP requires that all of the Open Transport Extensions are loaded and that the Extension PPP and the Control Panels PPP (MacOS 7.5.5-8.1) or Remote Access (MacOS 8.5+ and iMac), Modem and TCP/IP are loaded.

You should contact Apple Computer Inc. if you do not have these installed and are not sure how to do so.

Beginning with the iMac and MacOS 8.5 Apple began using a Remote Access Control Panel instead of a PPP Control Panel. These Control Panels are almost identical. The first Control Panel is PPP or Remote Access.

Enter your Dandy username and password.
Select the access number for your location.
Click the Options button.

Connections Tab:

On the Connection tab all the options are user preference. We recommend:

Do Not Check: "Prompt every 5 minutes to maintain connection".
Do Not Check: "Disconnect if idle for 10 minutes".

Protocol Tab:

If the you has an iMac or System 8.5 there will be an extra pull down menu labeled Use Protocol , make sure it is set to PPP.

Check: "Connect automatically when starting TCP/IP applications". (If it is the PPP Control Panel this option will be on the Connection tab.)
Check: "Allow error correction and compression in modem".
Check: "Use TCP header compression".
Do Not Check : "Connect to a command-line host".

Click OK . Then close the PPP/Remote Access Control Panel. Select Save the changes when prompted.

The second Control Panel to configure is the Modem Control Panel

Modem Window:

This pull down menu lets you select your modem from a list of scripts. These are the connection scripts that come with the modem.

Scripts can be added or removed by dragging and dropping them from the Modem Scripts folder which can be found on the following path:
Hard Disk --> System Folder --> Extensions --> Modem Scripts
When modem manufacturers release new scripts they can usually be found at the manufacturers Web site. Another way to search for modem scripts and firmware updates is to connect to www.versiontracker.com

Close the Modem Control Panel and save the changes when prompted.

The third Control Panel to configure is the TCP/IP Control Panel.

TCP/IP Window:

Select: "Connect via PPP"
Select: "Configure using PPP server"
Enter the Primary and Secondary DNS numbers in the Name Server Address box.

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