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From: wishart@bnl.gov (Jim Wishart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Having Localtalk and Ethernet too
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.040958.5277@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
Date: 29 Apr 91 04:09:58 GMT
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In article <2491@pdxgate.UUCP> gerry@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Gerry Recktenwald) 
writes:
> In article <1991Apr26.204034.27688@hubcap.clemson.edu> 
philip@hubcap.clemson.edu (Philip L Harshman) writes:
> >We have a Mac IIci here that is tied into the campus Ethernet with an 
Ethertalk
> >card.  ... stuff deleted ... 
> >           However, since you have to decide between Ethertalk and
> >localtalk with the "Network" control panel, this precludes us from 
using our
> >local LaserWriter.  ... rest of post deleted
> 
> I have a Mac II with a 3Com Etherlink NB card connected to our building
> Ethernet.  I also have an PhoneNet connector tying me and four other Mac 
II?'s
> to a Laserwriter NT.  It's been months since I've opened the Control 
Panel
> to select a network and I can use both.
> 
> This also works with a newly installed Mac IIsi (same Ethernet card; 
NuBus
> adapter; system 6.0.7)
> 
> Our solution:  Try printing to the Laserwriter anyway.  Read manuals and
> follow instructions later.  If the system can't find the Laserwriter use
> the Control Panel to select the Appletalk network, but *don't* switch 
back
> to the Ethernet.  All our Ethernet communication is with NCSA Telnet, I
> have no idea how this works with other TCP/IP communication packages.
> 
> gerry
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-...
> Gerry Recktenwald  (503) 725-4296  Internet: gerry@me.pdx.edu
> UUCP:{ucbvax, uunet}!tektronix!pdxgate!cs.pdx.edu!gerry
> PSU Mechanical Engineering, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207

This solution does not provide simultaneous access to Ethertalk and 
LocalTalk services, which I believe is Philip's question. I have used 
Liason (now v3.0)
for this purpose for two years now without any problem.

Jim Wishart                wishart@bnl.gov
Chemistry Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory,Upton, NY 11973