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From: djh@cs.mu.oz.au (David Hornsby)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: UDPTalk as a backbone
Message-ID: <2832@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 7 Sep 89 12:57:20 GMT
References: <31353@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <3745@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <1210@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Reply-To: djh@murtoa.UUCP (David Hornsby)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <1210@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> (William Roberts) writes:
>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.

Thanks for the bouquet. I would like to make a minor correction and
a couple of additions. Multigate uses FTP rather than TFTP to boot. 
It can also boot from Macs on EtherTalk or LocalTalk. 

It also now supports RIP.

Regards,

David Hornsby						...!uunet!munnari!djh
Professional Officer					djh@munnari.OZ.AU
Department of Computer Science "The home of Multigate"	+61 3 344 4044
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia.