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From: pierre@imag.fr (Pierre LAFORGUE)
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Subject: Re: Gatorbox v Fastpath
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Date: 25 Apr 91 10:37:24 GMT
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In article <4264@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>>The Tcp/Ip tools running on Macintosh (e.g. Telnet, Ftp, Mail, etc) cannot
>>dialog with others IP nodes through the Gator gateway: they register a correct
>>IP address, but they cannot send messages outside the local cable.
> 
> Either I don't understand this, or it's false.  I routinely connect to
> machines not on the local cable (e.g., sumex) through our GatorBox.

Yes, we too.  Maybe my description was not enough detailed.
I wanted to say that, in the case of real subnetting (the Macintoshes on the
LocalTalk are in an IP subnet different of the IP subnet of the hosts on the
Ethernet side), using dynamic IP address allocation by the Gatorbox, you must
use MacTCP on the Macintosh and configure it in a very strange manner.
With exactly the same functional choices, a KFPS does not necessitate a
special configuration of MacTCP (and accepts any other Tcp/Ip softs on the
Macs) because the KFPS is able to answer to NBP queries for IP addresses
outside the Localtalk and the Gatorbox is not, as it seems to me.
Maybe am I wrong ; I just received a first respond of Cayman, and I will post
the result when it will be definitive.
For allmost other functions, the Gatorbox offers the facilities of the KFPS.