Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!bmug From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Liaison Message-ID: <1990Oct19.144914.12089@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 14:49:14 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 In article mjs@steves.cs.wisc.edu writes: >Who make Liaison? and what does it do besides route printing across from >EtherNet to LocalTalk? > Liaison is now a Farallon product (they acquired it a couple of months ago from InfoSphere, who were the original publishers). Besides provides routing between EtherTalk and LocalTalk networks (which is mostly used for printing, but which I think also works well for AppleShare file server connectivity). In addition, Liaison also enables remote modem links to your network. It's sort of obvious why Farallon wanted to acquire it. BTW, a new version is due out very shortly, which provides Phase II compatibility, some bug fixes, and a couple of other useful features. > >Also, what's the Apple Internet Router? > The Internet Router from Apple provides the same type of routing functions as Liaison, but without the remote connectivity capability. Also, both products work either on a dedicated machine (i.e., such as an AppleShare server), or in the background on a non-dedicated machine (though anyone doing heavy work on such machine may not be happy with the resulting performance of said machine). John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |