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From: sanders@parc.xerox.com (Rex Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacTCP over Dialup AppleTalk?
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.052728.22533@parc.xerox.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 05:27:28 GMT
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This idea might be crazy, but maybe someone has tried.

Rather than waiting forever for MacTCP+SLIP, what about running MacTCP
over dialup AppleTalk?

By dialup AppleTalk, I'm talking about products like Shiva NetModem,
Farallon Liason, Hayes Interbridge, etc., with Shiva FastPath or
Cayman GatorBox doing AppleTalk-TCP/IP routing (see diagram below).

Can you get acceptable performance for MacX, Eudora, or NCSA Telnet
with this scheme?

Is 2400 baud uselessly slow?  Is 9600 baud usable?

The setup I have in mind is something like:

 MacX---MacTCP---AppleTalk---Shiva NetModem
				   #
				   #  Telephone line
				   #
Shiva FastPath---AppleTalk---Shiva NetModem
   $
   $  Ethernet TCP/IP
   $
Sun Server

It's not elegant, but perhaps better than nothing.

-- Rex Sanders
   sanders.parc@xerox.com