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- From: dll@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Don Loflin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP routing via the DL-2000 possible?
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 14:21:26 -0600
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- In article <1ier8lINNqv0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce591@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Allan Green) writes:
- >
- >Thanks to Chris Ranch for his comments regarding IP routing
- >via the DL-2000 card, disappointing though they were!
- >
- >Given that I need a MAC-IP router, what are my options? Does
- >anyone out there use a Localtalk network with an IP router?
- >Naiively, I might imagine that the following are possibilities:
- >
- >1) a box which plugs into the ethernet and localtalk networks
- > and does the business...
- >
- >2) a macintosh which has an ethernet card and special IP software
- > to do the routing... (would this Mac be dedicated to this task
- > or could it be used for other things too?)
-
- As others mentioned, you need a Mac-IP router. While I don't know of
- any Mac software to do IP routing, there is a PC solution. If you only
- have a few Macs and no money to spend on a FastPath-4 (they are pretty
- cheap, I hear, and it's a better solution), you can run KA9Q-NOS on
- a PC with an ethernet card and a localtalk card. You need the version
- of NOS modified to work with the localtalk packet driver (it's on ucsd.edu),
- and the Farallon PhoneNet PC software. It works -- I've tried it. Send
- me email if you want more details. If you have more than a dozen or so
- Macs though, you will be better off using a FastPath.
-
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- Don Loflin
- loflin@emx.cc.utexas.edu
- (512) 471-3241 x413
- Just my opinions...
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