---
name: "MacRegister"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "macgate"
version: "1.14-5"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/MacRegister"
---

# MacRegister(8)

Register an interface as an Appletalk IPGATEWAY node.

## NAME

MacRegister - Register an interface as an Appletalk IPGATEWAY node.

## SYNOPSIS

**MacRegister** -c *command -i IP address*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **MacRegister** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**MacRegister** Registers or unregisters one of your GNU/Linux system's network interfaces as an \`IPGATEWAY' node on the Appletalk network.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options are included below.

- **-c *command***

  Registers or unregisters a gateway; \`add' registers a gateway, \`del' unregisters a gateway.

- **-i *IP address***

  Specifies the IP address of the interface which is to be registered as  a gateway.

## SEE ALSO

[**MacRoute**(8)](/MacRoute/8.md) [**MacPinger**(8)](/MacPinger/8.md) [**MacGated**(8)](/MacGated/8.md)

For more information on using the IPDDP device see Documentation/networking/ipddp.txt in the kernel source code, which explains more precisly on how to get the IPDDP device working.

## AUTHOR

The MacGate suite was written by Jay Schulist \<Jay.Schulist@spacs.k12.wi.us\> and is copyrighted under the GNU General Public License.  This manual page was adapted from the source code of MacRegister.c by David Huggins-Daines \<dhd@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.