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From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: UDPTalk as a backbone
Summary: Gateways exist which use TFTP
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Date: 6 Sep 89 16:39:18 GMT
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Westfield College, University of London, UK.
Keywords: Webster Multigate

In article <3745@helios.ee.lbl.gov> leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes:
>Milo S. Medin writes:
>>                                                       Now if we could only get
>> the silly things to boot via TFTP or the like, we wouldn't need access to
>> Macs on the Localtalk segment at all!
>
>Actually, my vote goes for bootp; but anything is better than having to
>visit the localtalk segment (well, anything but ethertalk).
>

It's worth pointing out that the Webster Multigate does all of
the things a good AppleTalk-Ethernet gateway should (including
the proxy ARP for IP->DDP encapsulation that is the bulk of the
gibberish in atalkatab files), AND has the options to boot its
gateway code using BOOTP or TFTP.

I liked it - nice big box, 4 LocalTalk + 1 Ethernet, Hypercard
Stack to help you set it up, including generating an atalkatabb
file. We tried one out as a possible replacement for our aging
KFP-2 gateway; it was lots nicer than a KFP-4 (which is just as
badly documented as the old box). A Gatorbbox has just arrived
on test, but it will have to be good....

William Roberts
(Any missing letter 'b's are entirely due to this terminal!)
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