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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Connecting Macs to Apollos
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Date: 15 Jan 91 12:15:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
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Having recently got some more macs, we were wondering on the feasibility of
connecting them to our Apollo ring. I should perhaps add that I am fairly
knowledgable of Apollo's but know very little about Mac details. The sort of
connections I have in mind are for the apollo's to provide the printing
facilities and maybe file servers. As far as hardware is concerned, we have
ethernet connections on the Apollos and some of the Macs could be upgraded.
However, we have recently bought some entry-level Mac Classics, and ethernet
upgrades for these do not yet seem to be feasible. Is it possible to get
Appletalk connections for Apollo's (DN3000/4000 running OS10) together with
the appropriate software? Does Appletalk use IP - if we have an apollo acting
as a bridge between two ethernets, would it have to do explicit Appletalk
routing as well as IP?

I apologise if this information is asked frequently, but apart from a hint
that there is some software available to handle this, I have never seen the
topic discussed.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST

PS. Could you e-mail any reply because I don't read either of the groups on a
regular basis.