Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!b-tech!mingin.engin.umich.edu!news From: billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) Subject: Re: more MACtcp/telnet problems Message-ID: <1990Feb14.183344.23703@caen.engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@caen.engin.umich.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), University of Michigan References: <1990Feb14.090017.14223@lth.se> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 18:33:44 GMT In article <1990Feb14.090017.14223@lth.se> roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) writes: >In article CJM@UNB.CA writes: >> >> I am trying to use the MACTCP version of NCSA's Telnet in a setup where >> my Gateway is not in the same Zone as my Telnet session. I am having >> with this. My Gateway and Telnet session cannot seem to communicate. >> I have investigated the problem and found that it seems to be >> with MACTCP. > >I asked a similar question some time ago, and below is one of the answers: >(from minshallEkinetics.com (Greg Minshall), THANKS!) >--- >> 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".) >--- > >I've tried it, and it works. I can't find option 7 documented anywhere, and >I don't know if it is an official feature or not. Option 7 is documented in the docs for K-STAR 7.0 and K-STAR 8.0. -Steve