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From: garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: IP Encapsulation via KSTAR/KIP
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Date: 4 Oct 89 19:54:37 GMT
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In article <784@nigel.udel.EDU>, garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes...

>We are looking at hooking up two separate localtalk networks on campus here
>through the campus-wide IP backbone.  I am aware that either the KFPS-4 using
>KSTAR or the earlier K-boxes with KIP are capable of encapsulating AppleTalk
>packets in IP for transport across IP networks.

I just got through talking with someone from Kinetics/Excelan and now I'm not
even sure if I understand exactly all of the services that KSTAR/KIP provide.
Are these essentially the same things as the old Kinetics combined gateway code
which allow the K-box to act as both an IP and an AppleTalk router, with the
possible exception of some added bells and whistles?  If this is the case, what
are these bells and whistles and what, if anything, is there that is available
that would accomplish IP encapsulation of Appletalk packets such that the above
situation (getting appletalk packets across an IP network) could be handled?
Also, does KIP/KSTAR allow one to limit which zones one can access (for
example, don't let the english dept print on the chemistry dept's laserwriters
- this is a general hypothetical case, but access control will be an important
issue if the above is possible) 

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