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From: alex@otter.UMBC.EDU (Alex Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: BSD-TCP/Appletalk ?
Keywords: appletalk protocol TCP BSD
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Date: 29 Mar 89 19:36:59 GMT
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	I'm currently working on porting the Berkeley socket code (now public
domain) to a system 5 box (At&t 3b1) and I'm considering using appletalk for
the serial line protocol rather then SLIP.

	I've seen references to an AF_APPLETALK domain, but no code. Does the
code exist? is it available? Is there a reason why I should give up now?

	My eventual network will probably consist of a couple 3b1's, a mac,
and a few devices (printer(s)/modem/disk(s), etc), connected with serial 
lines, and/or scuzzy. Appetalk seems like a better protocol then ip for this,
and SLIP has a lot of overhead. (Not to mention that one of the machines 
already talks Appletalk).

	Thoughts, comments & pointers all appreciated.

					:alex
Alex Crain
Systems Programmer			alex@umbc3.umbc.edu
Univ Md Baltimore County		umbc3.umbc.edu!nerwin!alex