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From: williams@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Localtalk -> TCP/IP Gateways?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.141755.11592@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 19:17:54 GMT
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We have several Mac LocalTalk networks which we would like
to provide with a TCP/IP connection.

The SPECS:
At the moment, at least two networks have access to a VAX
through an Appletalk Internet Router (running on a IIci connected
to LocalTalk and Ethernet) via the PATHWORKS Appletalk/Decnet
gateway.
Unfortunately that Vax Software Gateway only translates from
ADSP to Vax NSP.  (Allowing file, printer sharing and terminal
services from the VAX.)

The Question:
The TCP/IP can coexist with Appletalk on Localtalk, and we
would like an inexpensive gateway solution which would translate
only between the MacTCP and Ethernet TCP/IP.  [In techincal terms
it is called (by DEC) a DDP-IP gateway.]  

Are there any gateways other than fastpath or gatorbox which do 
this task exclusively ??

Any help will be appreciated.
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E.J. Williams                            INTERNET:   williams@rsmas.miami.edu  
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, FL
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