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From: korfhage@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Willard Korfhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FastPath vs. GatorBox (and CAP)
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Date: 25 Jan 90 00:06:24 GMT
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Reply-To: korfhage@pucatt.poly.edu (Willard Korfhage)
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For Mac access to NFS file systems, and alternative to the Gatorbox
software is CAP, from Columbia University. CAP makes any directory on a unix
machine look like an appleshare volume, and this directory might well be
mounted via NFS from some other machine. It is free, and I know it works
well. If you want to use if from Macs on a local talk network, you still 
need some soft of box to translate from localtalk to the ethernet. If
you have macs on an ethernet (like my own), then theory says that the mac
and the unix machine should be able to communicate. The problem is that
the unix machine wants to talk TCP/IP, and the mac wants to talk Ethertalk.
You can still use a Fastpath or Gatorbox to do the translation (actually,
encapsulation), but there's a set of drivers for CAP that are supposed
to let CAP understand ethertalk directly instead of going through TCP/IP.
The name of these drivers escapes me at the moment, but it is something
like adp and is supposed to be available on sumex or other unix archives.
The systems people here at poly are working on putting the drivers into
CAP, and expect to be done with it in 3 or 4 weeks. Thus, if everything works
well, using unix machines as appleshare file servers will not require
any additional hardware for macs connected to the ethernet, and may require
as little as Liason running on a gateway mac for macs connected to localtalk.

I will let the net know if the driver installation reaches a successful
conclusion.
 Willard Korfhage   ARPA : korfhage@pucatt.poly.edu, korfhage@cs.ucla.edu
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