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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: TCP/IP for Apple{Talk,Share}?
Message-ID: <1130@uw-nsr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 20:31:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-nsr.1130
Posted: Thu Oct  8 20:31:28 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 13:23:24 EDT
Reply-To: john@nsr.acs.washington.edu.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386)
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Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA
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Keywords: TCP/IP, AppleTalk, AppleShare, Networking

Hi,

I'm trying to put together some information on connecting both AppleTalk 
and AppleShare networks to TCP/IP networks.  I'm interested in both hardware
and software for this task.  War and horror stories are also of interest.

I would be willing to bet that other people would be interested in this 
information, so I will be happy to summarize and post any information that
I receive.  Please mail me rather that posting it as I expect there could
be quite a lot of discussion on something like this.

I'd also be happy to collect and organize information on Mac software for
making use of the network connection, such as electronic mail software, 
file transfer software, etc.

Here are a few of the products I have heard about.  Some or all of this
information may be bogus; I heard it secondhand from some local networking
types.

  1.  Kinetics Corporation makes a `thing' for connecting an AppleTalk network
      to a TCP/IP.  He thought the price was about $ 3600.00 per unit.  It's 
      not clear if this is a card or a stand-alone unit.
	
  2.  Hayes Corporation makes something called an InterBridge for 
      connecting AppleTalk networks together into large networks of
      more than 32 devices.

  3.  DuPont Corporation makes a fiber-based product for increasing the
      maximum physical size of an AppleTalk network.

Finally, in a few days we will be changing our Internet name from
"nsr.acs.washington.edu" to "nsr.bioeng.washington.edu."  However,
our Internet address won't change; it is 128.208.64.1.

Thank you.


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John Sambrook                        Internet: john@nsr.acs.washington.edu
University of Washington RC-05           UUCP: uw-nsr!john
Seattle, Washington  98195               Dial: (206) 548-4386