At 11:30 AM -0700 9/22/99, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>Is there some technical reason that LocalTalk is not supported by NetBSD,
>or is it just that EtherNet is faster and cooler...?

Well, it is that ;-)

LocalTalk needs some peculiar stuff in the serial driver.  Ioctl's to
handle non-standard (for serial connections that is) control line settings.
Bill Studenmund can say how far he got putting that in.

I think a number of minor details of how the AppleTalk protocol is
implemented change so I would be surprised if NetATalk didn't need some
fixing up as well.  I guess that should be confined to timout values and
link layer encapsulation.

I don't think it's a big project, but I'm not personally motivated since I
found a surplus DaynaPrint to run my printer.

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