[2163] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Ethertalk / Localtalk routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Mar 20 05:03:31 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: roman@sorry.vse.cz (Roman Dolejsi)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:39:34 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960319192702.2224A-100000@sorry.vse.cz> from "Roman Dolejsi" at Mar 19, 96 07:37:18 pm
> 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
Apart from an Alpha test Farallon driver and hooks in the very latest
kernels there is no localtalk support for Linux.
> 2) dedicate one of the MACs for routing Localtalk/Ethertalk and on
> Ethernet there will be Linux appletalk fileserver.
You can buy little plug in boxes that are cheaper than a Mac and do this.
Alan
