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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: DEC LANworks is Phase 2 only: can Phase 1 & 2 co-exist?
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.115544.840@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 23 Jul 90 10:55:44 GMT
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In article <ianh.648781008@morgana>, ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes:
> HAMM@BIOVAX.RUTGERS.EDU (Greg Hamm) writes:
> 
>>	2. Is there any way to route between Phase 2 and Phase 1 networks?
> 
> Yep, there are 2 ways that I know of:
> 
> 1.  use Apple's internet router software (preferably on a dedicated mac)
> 2.  if you have a Kinetics Fastpath 4 with recent ROM revisions, Kstar v8.0
>     will also allow a "transition bridge" to do phase 1 <--> 2 routing.

  3. GatorBox from Cayman systems. 

My personal experience says that the Internet Router is loading the Mac 
heavily with I <-> II conversion, thus giving bad performance once more than 
one job is to be routed. The KFP must be more or less brand new, and ours
cant do it. The GatorBox works fine. 

> 
> This works with LANworks :-)
> 

I could not get that product yet - shipping dates for ol' Europe known ? 

- Reinhard