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At long last I’ve managed to configure dual network interfaces on my mac.  With the help of split-routing and Alberth Matos, I’ve managed to get two interfaces working simulataneously.

Interface 1: Airport Extreme (my fast internet connection)
Interface 2: Gigabit Ethernet (for lan connections)

The order of the interfaces is set in the Network Preferences as above.

Each interface is configured as it would be to access its respective network.  DNS for the local network is entered in both configs and the following command is used to configure the routing table:

sudo route add 10.0.0.0/8 10.2.204.20

Where 10.0.0.0 is the local netmask and 10.2.204.20 is the local router address.

The route tables need to be updated upon network location change or reboot.  I’m now investigating the best way to handle this.

I just reinstalled Fink 0.7.1 and found that it does indeed work in Tiger.  Release notes state that not all packages are updated, but most do work.  I’m recompiling now.

I haven’t found Tiger’s Network Diagnostics application too useful yet. 

Very thoughtful of Apple to have added such a feature, but woah!  A “Server connections interrupted” dialog? 

The OS is actually asking me what I want to do instead of hanging indefinitely.

What’s going on here?  We’ve had ten major systems and we’ve never seen this before. 

It’s almost as cool as killing the AppleTalk stack under Macsbug in the classic MacOS.. but, I suppose I’m losing people here..

Mac-kind are used to the process of losing network connections and having the computer hanging.  If you we’re lucky, you might get a dialog- but this.. wow.

Save yourself some grief and reinstall stuffit expander after your tiger install.  It will be either broken or missing when you’re done with installation.

The new Dictionary functionality in Tiger is way cool.  Try holding control-apple-d and moving your mouse cursor over the next in this page.  Whoah!

Not sure how useful this is, but it is fast and impressive.

Loving the fact that you can change the energy saver mode setting from the Battery Menulet in Tiger.  Great for saving power or getting that extra oomph for Doom3.

At long last, Apple has built Addressbook Sharing into Tiger.  I’m curious to explore how much control you have over the shared data.

Going to fullscreen mode in QuickTime 7 triggers a really cool effect where the player scales up to fullscreen.  Neato- glad I paid the $30

Tiger’s Spotlight Indexes are stored here:

/.Spotlight-V100

To reindex:

sudo mdutil -E /

Spotlight is a nice search tool, but I’m finding that the speed can’t touch LaunchBar.  Sure, its nice to be able to search inside files and the like, but I’m more about opening files and applications without resorting to half a dozen clicks. 

I’m really curious to see how much faster Spotlight is on my dual G5 2.0.  My only experience so far is on my 1.5Ghz PowerBook.