Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: packet drivers and Mac Ethertalk question Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 21:17:22 GMT References: <1991Jan25.230229.6596@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Jan29.082314@curly.Viewlogic.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 23 alan@curly.Viewlogic.COM (Alan Medsker) writes: >They don't. Macs talk Appletalk to the NLM/VAP, which translates to NetWare >protocols. The bridge or server that the VAP/NLM is running on needs to >have its NIC ECONFIGed, of course, but you've already done that. OK, we're going to be running packet drivers/NDIS with the -n option, so that it actually talks 803.2 (am I correct in saying this?) even though the BYU IPX shell will actually sent V2 packets. This pretty much eliminates the need to ECONFIG the server's Ethernet card(s). The question then becomes, how do macs sitting on the same Ethernet network using Ethertalk (which seems to be the way Apple seems to be pushing lately, macs using Ethertalk over Localtalk)? On a side note, what kind of ethernet packets are these Macs using with Ethertalk? V2 or 802.3 or something else? (If it's V2, then we dump the NDIS switch and ECONFIG the ethernet cards, ECONFIG a different ethernet card in the server to talk the correct type used in Ethertalk...) Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | I just come from the land of Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | the sun/ from a war that must Bitnet: kusumoto%chsun1@uchicago[.bitnet] | be won in the name of truth. UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | - New Order, "Love Vigilantes"