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- From: mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Subject: Re: free Appletalk gateway with a Sun?
- Keywords: appletalk IP gateway Sun
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.210906.3172@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:09:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.162059.5386@ens.fr>
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- In article <1992Aug26.162059.5386@ens.fr> beig@dmi.ens.fr writes:
- >I was told of a public domain software which enables a Sun with
- >no special hardware (*) to act as a gateway between an Appletalk
- >network and a Ethernet-IP network? Does this exist? What's its
- >name? I think archie useful for locating it with its name.
- >
- >With no special hardware, I mean only a cable between a Mac
- >and the DB25 asynchronous port of an ordinary Sun.
-
- I think you are referring to cap, which is the Columbia Appletalk Package.
- It can be found as cap60.tar.Z at many ftp sites. As far as hardware,
- I don't think you mean the serial port on the Sun, but rather the AUI
- port and the MAU, right?
-
- Chris Walsh
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