Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAC/IP Message-ID: <679@uva.UUCP> Date: 31 Mar 89 17:26:03 GMT References: <1989Mar29.173959.13694@csuchico.uucp> Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Followup-To: comp.protocols.appletalk Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 37 In article jh@tut.fi (Juha Hein{nen) writes: >In article <1989Mar29.173959.13694@csuchico.uucp> robin@csuchico.uucp (Robin Goldstone) writes: > > these packages is MAC/IP from Stanford. The memo says "The > Macintosh software will operate via either a LocalTalk or Ethernet > connection". I am having trouble interpreting this. Do I put an > Ethernet board in my Mac and then just tap into the Ethernet cable? > I am already on an AppleTalk network. Does MAC/IP use this > somehow? > >I'm also interested in this. Doesn't Apple officially support >Ethernet connection with TCP-IP and if so which Mac models from Mac SE >up can be equiped with this set up? If Apple doesn't support >Ethernet/TCP-IP (like any serious computer manufacture should) what >are the third party hardware options? [note: followups directed to comp.protocols.appletalk, where these things usually get discussed] Apple supports EtherNet connections with their Ethernet card for the Mac II. There are several solutions for the SE/Plus, including Kinetics and Dove. Apple supports EtherTalk protocol, and has recently added full support of TCP/IP via their MacTCP package (which, to my knowledge, was announced but hasn't shipped yet. I'd love to be proved wrong...) MacIP from Stanford is a collection of programs written for Unix that provide services to Macs hooked up on the network. These connections can be direct, if the Macs have an EtherNet connection, or via a Kinetics FastPath which relays to a LocalTalk network. These services include mail (I believe) and things like 'finger' (from Unix). Disclaimer: I just installed KIP/CAP. MacIP is the next step :-)... -cbb -- Chris Borton borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} Rotary Scholar & Network Administrator, University of Amsterdam CS