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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: questions on KIP/CAP and EtherPrint box
Keywords: KIP/CAP, EtherPrint, share LaserWriter
Message-ID: <6758@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 91 18:02:05 GMT
References: <4941@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <4941@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> bartm@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Bart Muyzer) writes:
>My goal is that I want to access the LW directly from all machines connected
>to the network, that is *without* burdening the IIfx. From dyer@spdcc.COM
>(Steve Dyer) I understood that CAP can be used for this because he wrote:
>
>   "The EtherPrint box works fine with RU-CAP using the "papif" utility plus
>   TransScript. I'm running CAP on a SUN SLC and share a TI Microlaser PS with
>   a Mac IIfx"
>
>My questions are:
>1. Did I correctly understand the functionality of KIP?
>2. The EtherPrint box has no internet address, nor can it be assigned one,
>   because it doesn't understand the TCP/IP protocol. Is this a problem?
>3. What do I have to put in the /etc/atalkatab and /etc/atalk.local files?
>4. Is it enough to only edit the atalk.local file? In other words: do I really
>   need the atalkatab file?
>5. If 2. *is* a problem, what alternatives do I have?

You need to build RU-CAP on the Sun with Chuck Hedrick's ethertalk support
(i.e. not with UAB or MacIP) and install the enet filter device driver into
your Sun.  KIP is not involved.

/etc/atalk.local contains the following lines on my Sun:
# Native EtherTalk using experimental CAP
enet0 spdcc-etalk

The Sun is accessing the EtherPrint box using ethertalk packets using the
'papif' application.  IP is not involved.

Your other hosts (if they can't be made to run RU-CAP/ethertalk directly)
should point to the Sun as a remote printer in their /etc/printcap files.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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