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From: wcc@cup.portal.com (wcc - usa)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: a beginner's question on appletalk/ethertalk
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Date: 13 Jul 90 20:56:24 GMT
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Joe Savage (savage@gauss.llnl.gov) writes:
> We`re trying to implement an
> Appletalk-to-Ethertalk converter for BSD 4.3 Unix.

Terminology problem. "AppleTalk" is the protocol suite. "EtherTalk" is
the "Data-link-level" part of the suite.

>  The idea is to eventually
> allow users of remote macs to dial in to the Vax running Unix and have access
> to the servers of their zones at work on the lab internet.

The hard part will be writing the low-level drivers to get the VAX to emit
the EtherTalk packets. Currently it "talks" TCP/IP and possible some
"DECNET" protocols.

A package solution exists, but you have to buy a MultiGate to get it. This
allows users to dial into the VAX running Unix and to access the AppleTalk
network (and devices and services) from the dialled-in Macs.

Tom Evans
wcc@cup.portal.com
Webster Computer Corporation
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