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Re: Ethertalk / Localtalk routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hester)
Wed Mar 20 00:01:01 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:05:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Hester <erich@basenet.com>
To: Roman Dolejsi <roman@sorry.vse.cz>
cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960319192702.2224A-100000@sorry.vse.cz>
On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Roman Dolejsi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have got a lab with about 20 MACs connected via Localtalk. I need
> to connect them to outside (ethernet) world and to make an appletalk
> fileserver for them (on Linux). I suggest I have these posibilities:
>
> 1) buy some Localtalk card for PC and route appletalk via Linux fileserver
> 2) dedicate one of the MACs for routing Localtalk/Ethertalk and on
> Ethernet there will be Linux appletalk fileserver.
> 3) buy Ethertalk cards for all the MACs I have (too expensive)
>
> I need some suggestions about this:
> ad 1) does exist any Localtalk card for PC ? Is that card supported under
> Linux ?
> ad 2) does exist any freely available routing software for MAC's sys7 ?
I work for Clemson University, we used to do exactly what you are
speaking of. We had a lab of about 50 se/20's that only did localtalk.
What we did was dedicate one se/20 for localtalk/ethertalk routing via
Apples Internet Router. we then put mactcp on each mac, and that was it.
We had a linux machine running apple talk for a small scale fileserver
for testing only, but it was just on the ethernet backbone. I doubt there
is a PC localtalk card, and if there is I doubt even more if linux
supports it.. your #2 up there is really the only "real" solution.
let me know if you need any more specific info.
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