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From: minshall@kinetics.UUCP (Greg Minshall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Telnet through Liaison
Message-ID: <757@kinetics.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 23:14:48 GMT
References: <1989May25.152904.13504@LTH.Se>
Organization: Kinetics, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
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From article <1989May25.152904.13504@LTH.Se>, by newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server):
...
> We don't want to use FastPaths or GatorBoxes as the LocalTalk-
> Ethernet bridges as they are too expensive.

Well, I don't know (but, as I work for Kinetics, I'm a bit prejudiced).
If you want to dedicate a Mac to the routing function, you are probably
going to pay more than for a FastPath.  If you don't want to dedicate
a Mac, I would *think* (I've never used Liasion - and I think it is probably
quite a nice product) that a heavy routing load would bog down the Mac
a bit.  Anyway, the real reason for this response is...
...
> Is it possible to set up one (for the whole university) FastPath or 
> a GatorBox as a EtherTalk-tcp/ip bridge and have it perform the 
> neccesary conversion?
...
> Would it work? If not, why? Are the alternative solutions?

With K-STAR on a FastPath, this is possible.  You need to select option
7 (and, by the way, configure things properly everywhere else), and it
will service "MacIP" clients (be they NCSA Telnet, our HostAccess, whatever)
connected "via" ethertalk as well as localtalk.

(By the way, selecting option 7 implies that only one K-STAR (or KIP) box
may be "in" the same zone - where "in a zone" means "has the same zone assigned
to its localtalk port".)

Hope this helps.

Greg Minshall
minshall@kinetics.com (this seems to work these days).
1-415-947-0998