MacEthernet

From: Tarsi <tarsi_at_binhost.com>
Date: Tue Apr 30 21:48:54 2002

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 21:02, you wrote:
>which leaves me wondering how folks who use MACs
>install an ethernet interface.

On my older compact Macs I use Asante SCSI-->Ethernet adaptors, and the
software is still available easily from Asante's site. My main Linux box
acts as a Netatalk fileserver and all the Macs share off of it.

To handle the bridging of phonenet, I took a Dayna Etherport
Ethernet-->Appletalk bridge originally designed to use an Ethernet
LaserWriter on an Appletalk network. It bridges all of the machines that I
have daisy-chained together with PhoneNET onto my Ethernet (10b2) which then
hooks into a hub's coax port and bridges the 10b2 over to 10bT for the rest
of my 'net. Works WONDERFULLY, although transfers are still slow (PhoneNET
only does 128K/sec, I believe).

Tarsi
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