Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!scenic.UUCP!pauld From: pauld@scenic.UUCP (Paul Davis) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: CAP without UDP Message-ID: <8912192326.AA02515@scenic.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 89 23:26:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Question: we are considering attempting to port CAP to a 386/ix box that is *not* and *will not* run UDP (or any TCP/IP services). My own brief inspection of the code supports the notion that the UDP encapsulation used by CAP is only there to provide a transport service to get AT packets out to a FastPath or Gatorbox, via the Un*x box's own ethernet interface. What we're thinking of doing is having CAP talk to a AT card directly, just shipping out AT packets without any UDP or other encapsulation; the AT card would then ship these over some unspecified wire to a Mac or AppleTalk net. Has anyone done this before ? Does anyone have any comments on the reasonableness of the idea ? We're not quite up on news yet (maybe next week) - please reply by e-mail to: ...!uunet!scenic!pauld pauld%scenic@uunet.uu.net Paul Davis ScenicSoft, Inc. "Industry without art is brutality" 206-776-7760