Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU!morgan From: morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Mac II as bridge to EtherNEt Message-ID: Date: 19 Jan 89 18:30:53 GMT References: <31901@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 People should be aware that there is more to a Kbox (and more still to a Gatorbox) than simply AppleTalk routing. Support for IP packet forwarding, IP address assignment, etc, that is, all the things you need to run Mac/IP or NCSA Telnet through a LocalTalk-Ethernet connection, is completely independent of AppleTalk routing. My impression is that Liaison (which I have *not* worked with) is *only* an AppleTalk router, and so does not support the IP functions. It would seem to me not too difficult in principle to port KIP to run on a Ethernet-attached Mac. Hackers of the world? - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford