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- From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP routing via the DL-2000 possible?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.210008.14224@novell.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:00:08 GMT
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- In article <1ierpfINNrcc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce591@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Allan Green) writes:
- >How practical would it be for me to write a TCP/IP gateway
- >for the DL-2000 myself? Obviously I'd need data on the
- >Novell IP NLM and DL-2000 interfaces, but would this be a
- >serious proposition?
-
- If it were easy, we would have done it a couple of years ago. The
- problem is that there isn't *really* such a thing as IP on localtalk.
- I'm not a real expert on localtalk, but from what i understand the way
- TCP/IP packets are carried on localtalk requires extensive support
- from both the TCP/IP and the Appletalk stacks. It's not as simple as
- just writing a localtalk driver and binding IP to it.
-
- There was a proposal last year (by the very same Chris Ranch) to carry
- TCP/IP packets on localtalk networks in a way more like they're
- carried on normal networks, but i don't think anyone did anything
- about it due to localtalk's somewhat limited future.
-
- don provan
- donp@novell.com
-