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From: powsner@csb1.nlm.nih.gov (Seth M Powsner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Dial-up Localtalk Bridging
Keywords: Localtalk Phone Modem Bridge TOPS QuickMail Telebridge
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.214815.18623@nlm.nih.gov>
Date: 27 Sep 90 21:48:15 GMT
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Anyone with experience bridging two small Localtalk networks over dial-up
lines? We've got a dozen machines (pc's, ps2's, mac's, and a laserwriter)
running Tops v2.1 and QuickMail throughout our office suite. We're bridged
to a much larger LocalTalk network (Shiva NetBridge) and from that net
there's a FastPath 4 hooking us to the campus ethernet. So far so good...

Now we're going to have an 'outpost' a few blocks away. We're looking at
using Shiva Telebridge's linked by some 2400 baud dial-up modems to allow
QuickMail access and some word processor file sharing (exchange actually).
Maybe we'd use the printers at each end fax style too. Will this work?
I've seen notes warning about Appletalk via 2400 baud link (and maybe a
patch). Anyone have direct experience with TOPS and or QuickMail over
such a slow link (probably can't afford 9600 baud modems).

Part of the "problem' is that the outpost's machines will be PC's.
Dial-up access to the QuickMail server does not seem to offer (word
processor) file enclosures from a PC. Otherwise we could "mail" the
files around. Among the machines at the outpost, there will likely be
a small TOPS network for word processor file sharing and printer sharing
as there is here.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, Seth Powsner, powsner@nlm.nih.gov powsner@yalemed.bitnet