Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!iraun1!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Mac II as bridge to EtherNEt Message-ID: <758@smurf.ira.uka.de> Date: 23 Jan 89 20:46:05 GMT References: <31901@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 23 In comp.protocols.appletalk morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU writes: < < 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. That's correct. So Liaison should (in principle) be totally transparent so that I might be able to get at K-Box/GatorBox _through_ a Liaison bridge or whatever. Only recent postings in this newsgroup seem to indicate that it doesn't. I'd like to know more. < < It would seem to me not too difficult in principle to port KIP to run < on a Ethernet-attached Mac. Hackers of the world? OK, OK -- so where do I get the documentation from? Kinetics? (Aren't they reading this? :-) ) Or do I read the KIP source code? -- Matthias Urlichs -- Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- FRG urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de -- ++49+721-621127@PTT