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From: alee@elaine21.stanford.edu (Andrew Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: PC on Appletalk
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Date: 10 Feb 91 07:46:45 GMT
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pj@oxy.edu (Paul Jonathan Estalilla Go) writes:

>Is there any way that a PC can be connected to an appletalk network,
>and through a FastPath so that it can run TCP/IP? Here's the situation:

>Paul Jonathan E. Go
>Occidental College #224
>pj@oxy.edu

It's quite possible; I'm using a 386 connected to LocalTalk with an
Apple LocalTalk PC Card right now.  Apple very recently sold this part
of their operation to Farallon, so you should contact Farallon about
this board.  TOPS also makes a board, and I believe a company called
DayStar makes a board (for Micro Channel I believe; the board I'm
using and the TOPS boards are for XT/AT buses.)

There seem to be a large number of freely available TCP/IP packages
that will support the LocalTalk boards for PCs, including NCSA and
KA9Q.  SI PC-IP was written here at Stanford, though it's no longer
supported; they decided to go with Wollongong's WIN/TCP, which I'm
using right now.

These boards aren't without problems; the (formerly) Apple board
doesn't work when my 386 is running at 25 MHz, so I have to slow it
to 8 MHz (I suspect that if the drivers would allow me to not use DMA,
this might go away), and the TOPS board seems to have trouble with
cable lengths that nothing else has trouble with.  (I know it doesn't
work with my machine, which has 1300-1500 feet of cable between it
and a StarController.)

	Andrew Lee
	alee@portia.stanford.edu