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- From: j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: MacTCP over LocalTalk
- Message-ID: <j-norstad-030992123006@norstad.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:26:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: norstad.j-norstad-030992123006
- References: <1992Sep2.234214.19655@unixland.natick.ma.us>
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- In article <1992Sep2.234214.19655@unixland.natick.ma.us>,
- cramer@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Cramer) wrote:
- >
- > According to the MacTCP manual, I can run MacTCP through a direct
- > Ethernet connection or over LocalTalk. To run over LocalTalk,
- > however, I need a bridge which frames and unframes TCP/IP packets
- > between AppleTalk and raw EtherNet protocols.
- >
- > So far, so good. But what if I want to use TCP/IP between two
- > Macs -- no Ethernet, just two macs connected with LocalTalk. Can
- > this be done? In theory, there is no need for the bridge since
- > my packets never reach an ethernet network. In practice, I get an
- > error -98 (port not configured) error when I try to PBOpen the
- > driver. Am I simply not configuring things correctly or is what
- > I'm trying to do simply not possible?
-
- It should work with MacTCP 1.1 configured with static IP addresses.
-
- When an AppleTalk/IP gateway is present, MacTCP 1.1 sends all of its
- encapsulated IP-in-DDP packets to the gateway. When a gateway is not
- present, it should use a technique called "NBP ARP" to locate the
- destination Mac, and then it delivers the IP-in-DDP packet directly to that
- Mac.
-
- NBP ARP on the source Mac does an NBP lookup for the entity name
- x.y.z.w:IPADDRESS@zone, where "x.y.z.w" is the IP address of of the
- destination Mac. MacTCP on the destination Mac should have registered this
- entity name.
-
- This is the same address resolution protocol used by gateways to deliver
- incoming IP packets to LocalTalk Macs.
-
- MacTCP needs to be open on both Macs. MacTCP is not opened until it is
- called for the first time after restarting by some TCP/IP application
- program.
-
- All this is guessing on my part - I've never actually tried this. This is
- how it should work, though, according to the MacIP protocol.
-
- John Norstad
- Academic Computing and Network Services
- Northwestern University
- j-norstad@nwu.edu
-