Subject: Re: TCP/IP over Appletalk/Localtalk when running NetBSD?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Donald Lee <donlee_68k@icompute.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/12/2002 18:17:15
>Donald Lee at donlee_68k@icompute.com wrote:
>
>> I'll second that.
>> 
>> I have an Asante Localtalk bridge (I don't remember
>> exactly what the product name was).  It's a little cigarette pack-sized
>> widget that has Ethernet on one side and Localtalk on the other.
>> I've used it to effectively give ethernet capability to my non-ethernet
>> machines/devices.  It seems to work flawlessly with filesharing and
>> printing.  Appletalk is all I've used, though so I can't say anything
>> about IP encap.
>
>Great product. To confirm, you can do MacIP (ATalk encapsulated IP) from the
>LocalTalk to the Ethernet side of the bridge. You just need something on the
>Ethernet side which will unpack the MacIP traffic and send it on to the rest
>of the Internet. We were lucky enough to have a nice Netopia router that did
>that part for us.
>
>And I think the limit is 8 LocalTalk devices with the Asante bridge.
>
>David B.


...and I believe that IPNetROuter will do MacIP....

-dgl-