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From: amosh@stl.stc.co.uk (Amos Hornsby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC/IP
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Date: 6 Apr 89 11:02:47 GMT
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In article <JH.89Mar31083358@tikka.tut.fi> jh@tut.fi (Juha Hein{nen) writes:
>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?
>--	Juha Heinanen, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland

We have a Mac II with a standard Apple EtherTalk card installed and it supports TCP/IP just fine. We use it with NCSA Telnet for remote session access and also to access AUFS/CAP volumes on Suns.
As for Mac SE's and Pluses we have them on AppleTalk connecting to a Kinetics Fastpath running k-star. Whenever a Mac on the AppleTalk runs Telnet, the Kinetics box dynamically allocates an Ethernet IP address from a sequence of addresses that you enter when configuring k-star. We've had not one single problem with this set up.
I hope this answers your question

   Amos Hornsby
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