On Dec 6, 17:22, Mike Ford wrote:
> At 02:08 AM 12/6/03 -0600, Erik Vollbrecht wrote:
> >Hi Jim,
> >
> >Are you the Jim Arnott that posted knowledge on how to use Dayna
> >Etherprint box? I found the thread in a mail list. If so, would you
be
> >willing to try and help me out with trying to set one up for my home
network?
>
>
> Etherprint should just work, only catch I have run across is that
many
> switches don't pass ethertalk packets, and thats what Appletalk uses
over
> ethernet, not standard TCP/IP. Hubs work fine, but only some
switches.
Any normal Layer-2 switch should pass Ethertalk packets. Some Layer-3
switches can do protocol filtering, and might not (or might be
configured that way) but any self-respecting ordinary Layer-2 switch
shouldn't care whether the next protocol up is Appletalk, DECNET, IPX,
IP, ARP, ...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sun Dec 07 2003 - 05:35:23 GMT