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From: ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Wierd Network Solution!
Message-ID: <257AE8FD.23546@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 89 22:00:29 GMT
Reply-To: ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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Thank you all for your kind attention!

A very nice woman (lady?) from Apple sent me a piece of e-mail that made
my day.  She points out that the TokenTalk card *comes with* software that
allows the mac to use a pc-lan network!  Bonus!!

I love Apple so much!  Of course no one in their right mind would use token
ring if they were not running pc-lan.  Which means that Apple should logically
want to support pc-lan software, but whip me till I bleed, I've been working
with IBM so long, I assumed it would'nt be this easy.

One further question though, if we get a gateway to ethernet and tcp/ip, will
the mac be able to use it?  My friend at Apple was not able to answer this one.
Is anyone out there using a token ring to tcp/ip gateway with a mac?  Anybody
got any theories about this?

My first guess is that this should work fine.  Since the PC's will be running
tcp/ip emulations locally, I don't know why the Mac can't do the same thing.
Does anyone know of a good tcp/ip emulator for the mac?  Any that explicitly
work over token ring?

I know that wiring the Mac directly with ethernet would be primo, but I don't
think I can shake the bucks for a ethernet backbone or pulling a single wire
all the way to my office on the 3rd floor, just for my lonely mac.

So please, no more suggestions about "ethernet would really be your best bet",
I *know* that!  I would love to do it that way, I don't think I can cut the
bucks though.  I need cheap solutions.

Thanks again and in advance!

Alex Jauch
UCI, AIS
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu