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From: gundrum@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and ETHERTALK on same cable?
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.004731.1977@svc.portal.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 00:47:31 GMT
References: <6458@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Organization: Software Ventures Corporation, Berkeley
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>I have been given the task of investigating the possibility of networking
>MACs and SPARCs together. Certain applications I want to use are based on
>TCP/IP , eg. NCSA TelNet , while others use Ethertalk. What I am wondering
>is whether it is possible to run both types of application over the same
>Ethernet network without having to use a gateway?

No problem. You just have to watchout for bridges/routers. If you have any
of these devices, they must be intelligent enough to pass both kinds of
address packets.

~~~Eric

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