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From: korfhage@polyof.poly.edu (A1 willard korfhage (cs) )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Unix-appletalk bridge program is available
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.183901.4236@polyof.poly.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 18:39:01 GMT
Organization: Polytechnic University
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Uab is a program that acts like a bridge (e.g. Fastpath or Gatorbox). Any 
mac that can put Ethertalk on an ethernet can talk to Columbia's CAP 
package without needing a Fastpath or 
Gatorbox on the network to handle protocol encapsulation. If your macs are 
on Localtalk, and you have a mac connected to both the ethernet and the 
localtalk network, then it appears that a software bridge like Liason can 
be used to get to CAP, rather than having to spend a couple thousand 
dollars for a dedicated bridge (see note later in message regarding this 
setup).

My mac is on the school ethernet, and I use uab and CAP to use our suns as 
file servers and to print to a QMS printer attached to a sun.

My mac is also connected to a localtalk network, and I recently tried to 
install Liason to bridge the two networks, and it seemed to do so, except 
that Liason always hung my machine after a couple minutes. Does anyone 
else out there have Liason 2.05 running on a IIci? Even with a clean 
system, no inits except Liason, and my mac disconnected from the networks, 
Liason still hung my machine. The folks at Infoshpere were baffled, and 
are sending me version 2.06, so until I get that I can't completely say 
how well uab and liason will get along.

uab and cap are available for anonymous ftp from puscs.poly.edu 
(128.238.5.8), in pub/Mac/Uab and pub/Mac/Cap. I don't know if CAP had to 
be modified to work with uab or not. I'm just a user, and it is our 
systems people who got uab debugged. (Translation: don't ask me any 
tecnical questions about uab)

   Willard Korfhage
   korfhage@pucatt.poly.edu