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From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: AppleTalk Phase II capabilities under LocalTalk ?
Summary: A Request...
Keywords: Phase II Localtalk
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.032616.13752@CAM.ORG>
Date: 7 Apr 91 03:26:16 GMT
Organization: Altitude.CAM.ORG, St-Lambert QC  CANADA
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Hello,

   I'm currently beta testing a product based on Faircom's CTree Server,
which is basically a client-server database architecture that runs as
a process under multifinder on a Mac.

   The only problem is that the Faircom code only supports client to
server connections within the SAME AppleTalk zone.  This means that the
product cannot be uses simultaneously by EtherTalk and LocalTalk users
since they reside on different zones.

   I thought of using AppleTalk Phase II's support for "logical zones",
but unfortunately this support is not available for LocalTalk.

   Is there a product (router, INIT, whatever...) that would enable
a LocalTalk node to be "logically" situated in an AppleTalk Phase II zone ?

   If this is impossible, how difficult would it be to patch the server and
client to handle multiple zones (I would not be doing this myself, but
I would like to be able to give the company some insight on the work involved)?

Your comments would be much appreciated!


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