Mac TCP/IP networking

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Wed Oct 25 13:04:37 2000

> However, be forewarned that ViacomSoft apparently knows nothing about
> Appletalk Bridge software. I have an extremely small network
> consisting of my PowerComputing clone and my wife's Quadra 650. We
> also have three different Appletalk printers. (PLW NT, HP Deskjet and
> Color Stylewriter) I have to use the Bridge software to communicate
> with the printers. I use ethernet and a x-over cable to connect the
> Macs. SurfDoubler would not allow access to the printers. Their tech
> support had no experience with it.

While I suspect that they share some code, from the description on the
web site, SurfDoubler isn't the same as SoftRouter. I may have to
experiment a bit here...
 
> After a month of trying to make it work, I tried Sustainable's
> IPNetRouter. Plug and play. Well worth the additional $50 if only
> for the lack of agravation factor. ViacomSoft's final answer was, "
> If you figure it out, let us know." I figured it out. The answer was
> to drop the ViacomSoft product and replace it with IPNetRouter.
>
> Told 'em what the fix was too! If you do not have to have a mixed
> network, ViacomSoft's product will probably work just fine. It just
> wouldn't work for me.

Well, I have one printer that's localtalk-only, so I have something
to test with. I do also have a Shiva box that allows sharing a single
localtalk peripheral amongst a localtalk workgroup, but I've never
messed with it.

-dq
Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 13:04:37 BST