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From: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: MACs and TCP/IP
Message-ID: <720@ncs.dnd.ca>
Date: 3 Jan 90 03:05:25 GMT
Reply-To: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood)
Organization: DREO, Ottawa, Ontario
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We are setting up a TCP/IP LAN which will largely consist of PC/ATs,
some 386s, a few SUN workstations and a couple of MicroVAXs.  We also
have a small group of MAC users who wish to set up an Appletalk zone
with about 6 MACs of various types, who wish to connect into the main
TCP/IP LAN.  We would like to be able to use all the usual TCP/IP things
like Telnet, FTP, SMTP etc, and NFS from the MACs.  At the moment the
easiest way to use this seems to be to obtain something like a Cayman
Gatorbox, though Novell/Excelan seem to offer something similar.
Another suggested solution is to use a more software based solution with
a MAC (probably a SE) acting as a router and protocol translation box.
If anyone has any good or bad experience of these types of solution, I
would be very interested in hearing about them, also any
recommendations.

Gordon Marwood
marwood@ncs.dnd.ca