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Subject: Direct Macintosh Ethernet connections
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 13:35:16 EDT
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Does anyone out there have any experience with any of the direct
Macintosh<->Ethernet interfaces?

Kinetics ("EtherSC") and Dove ("FastNet SCSI") both seem to sell them.
Are there any others?

The sort of information I'm looking for is:

1)  Do they work? How well?

2)  Do they support Appletalk over ethernet?

3) If (2) what sort of encapsulation do they use - i.e. do they support
the CAP/KIP IP encapsulation?

4) If not (3) do they have any support for changing the encapsulation?

5) Do they support TCP/IP? At the same time as Appletalk?

While I'm asking: does anyone know anything about Ethernet boards
for the Mac II - other than the 3COM one that seems to have slipped.
The same sorts of questions apply.

Thanks for any information,

Dan Tappan
BB&N