Mac TCP/IP networking (was Re: old MAC's)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Oct 24 19:28:30 2000

On Oct 24, 8:36, Eric J. Korpela wrote:

> I'm also looking for info about how to gateway between TCP/IP over
AppleTalk
> and TCP/IP over ethernet. I've got a stand alone AppleTalk<>Ethernet
box,
> but it appears only to transport the LocalTalk protocol without
transforming
> IP into the proper format.

Some flavour of Cayman GatorBox, perhaps? I have a GatorBox CS (you can
still get software updates from Cayman's FTP site), and although I've never
tried this, it is supposed to be able to allow Unix machines (or other
machines that talk TCP/IP) to print to Laserwriters on the Localtalk bus.
 We used to have two at work which allowed Mac users to use our Unix
printers and Unix/NFS filestore (which suggests it does translate properly
in both directions). They also allowed our Macs to talk to others on the
campus, which involved going through at least two IP routers and the ATM
network as well as the two ethernet segments and GatorBoxes, though I think
that used some sort of tunnelling mechanism. And of course all the Macs,
PCs, and Unix machiners could ping and telnet to each other, though I'm not
sure how much of that involved the GatorBoxes and how much was done by
software in the Macs.

We no longer have/use the GatorBoxes at work, though two other Departments
still do, I believe. Our Mac users use Dave to talk to the print servers
and file servers. I don't know much about it, but I think it's a sort of
Samba client -- doubtless some of the Mac users on the list know much more
than I.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 19:28:30 BST

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