Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: System 7 & AppleTalk Phase II Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: <1991Jun20.153638.25622@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 20 Jun 91 19:02:30 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1991Jun20.153638.25622@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> brian@galileo.uucp (Brian Donnell [PT4]) writes: > However, System 7 Macs connected directly to the Ethernet must use EtherTalk > Phase II protocols. To communicate with other Macs using LocalTalk, your > LocalTalk/Ethernet gateway (such as a Fastpath) must understand Phase II > EtherTalk. This is not true. You can use plain Ethernet support, it's just that the drivers do not come with system 7. If you drop in the Ethernet file from your old system and select it via the Network cdev. It works fine on my Mac IIci here at work (with an Apple ethernet card). I'm running it with MacTCP 1.0.1 and system 7, and haven't had any problems. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA