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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Mac Access to TCP/IP
Message-ID: <1968.2719b242@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 14 Oct 90 23:57:38 GMT
References: <691@axiom.maths.uq.oz>
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Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <691@axiom.maths.uq.oz>, jay@axiom.maths.uq.oz.au (Joseph Young) writes:
> I'm faced with the following configuration:
> 
>           +-----+                                                +-----+
>           ! Mac !                                                ! IBM !
>           +--+--+                                                ! PCs !
>              !                +--------+                         +--+--+
>    Novell Trunk - LocalTalk   ! Novell !  Novell Trunk - Ethernet   !
> -------------+----------------+ File   +----------+-----------------+--->
>                               ! Server !          !
>                               +--------+          !
>                              (NetWare 2.15)    +--+---+
>                                                !Bridge!(Brand: Wellfleet) 
>                                                !Router!
>                                                +--+---+
>                      Ethernet to remote hosts     !  (TCP/IP)
>            ---------------------------------------+-----------------------
> 
> Question: How can I get the Macintoshes on the Novell LocalTalk trunk talking
>           to the remote hosts on the Ethernet running TCP/IP. The type of
>           services I'm interested in are Telnet, FTP and mail.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated .. I'm fairly new at this type of thing.
> 
> Joe Young
> 
> jay@axiom.maths.uq.oz.au

I've seen several solutions, but all the ones I have seen are a hardware box
that translates ethernet into Appletalk. Products are such things as Fastpath
and GatorBox? We use Fastpaths here, (not sure whether thats a brand or model).

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