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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Simultaneous use of Localtalk and Ethertalk
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Date: 5 May 91 05:49:54 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
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In article <1991May4.160106.26230@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, morris@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Ted Morris) writes:
> Regarding using LocalTalk and EtherTalk ports at the same time, I can't
> speak to whether Apple ought to provide this or not ('twould be nice,
> tho!), but if you -have- to have this, Liaison does a clean job of it.
> Since it's a router, it even makes those peripherals in the LocalTalk
> zone available to other Macs on the same EtherTalk segment as the
> machine running Liaison.       

Seem like there would be a market for Liaison Lite that would only provide
the functionality needed to pass etherTalk -> localTalk for these purposes.  

Liaison is nice, but way overkill for most people with this setup.

-- michael

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