Subject: Re: serial ports
To: Eagle <eagle243@mac.com>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/05/2002 21:47:09
At 5:23 PM -0500 2/5/02, Eagle wrote:
>How can I tell whether my serial ports are working correctly?  I 
>have no modem or printer...what I do have is a LocalTalk network to 
>which I am eventually trying to connect...I am working on porting 
>macipgw to be able to route between my ethernet and LocalTalk 
>networks.
>
>LocalTalk Bridge works fine in MacOS, but it doesn't give me MacIP routing.

NetBSD cannot do LocalTalk. The serial ports can be used for serial, 
or for SLIP/PPP, but not for AppleTalk. NetAtalk can only be used via 
the Ethernet ports.

Sorry,
Mike
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