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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Async AppleTalk and MacTCP
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Date: 5 Apr 91 17:07:49 GMT
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Thanks to all who send help on trying to get Async Appletalk to work.
The solution was to get hold of the ethertalk installation disk - there is
a copy on apple.com [ hope I'm not supposed to say that ... ].

Having got this to work, I'm interested in working out how far it will go -
ie. Appleshare to CAP server works, but is *very* slow. The next question
is "can I get MacTCP to work?". That would give telnet and eudora - sure it
would be slow, but there may well be less of the other funnies we get, and
the speed would be an inducement for anyone to try to get a proper Localtalk 
or Ethertalk connection. Anyway, MacTCP is quite happy in selecting the Async
network icon. It does ask for which zone though - what affect does this have?
Anyway, the system doesn't fall over, but I get no response from anywhere. I
suspect I have to fit some routing up.

Has anyone got this to work, or could someone please tell me how this is
likely to appear to the network - ie. would the Mac be logically connected
to the Webster Multigate (we are using for comms) or to the Unix box the
serial line is connected to?

Any help would be appreciated!

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST