dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (02/13/88)
Ok you LocalTalk/Ethertalk/Ethernet gurus: A Question... Now that there are Ethernet cards for the SE and the II why is a Kinetics Box (or like boxes) necessary? Will there be a version of AUFS/CAP stuff that does not require a box between my Mac II w/EtherTalk and my Hp Unix box on the ethernet? If not, WHY NOT? And just where might NFS fit into this scheme? I know TOPS is working on incorporating this into TOPS to some degree. However, the cost has to be reasonable, as I am the only Mac II user in my lab, and we are not about to spend big bucks for just one user. I can already have multiple sessions with my Unix box courtesy of NCSA TELNET, but it would be great to be able to mount the file system and store some of my files on Un*x. Yes, I know I will be able to do that sort of thing if I buy AUX and another disk drive--but I want to do it without AUX and under the MAC OS. Take it away gurus...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David L. Williams dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM ...!hplabs!hpda!dlw Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Ca Software Development Technology Laboratory Distributed Computing Environment Project Phone:(408) 447-5425 Mailstop: 47LR "What if Apple put a SPARC on a Nubus card?" ----------
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;YF37) (02/16/88)
In article <11540136@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes: >Ok you LocalTalk/Ethertalk/Ethernet gurus: A Question... > >Now that there are Ethernet cards for the SE and the II why is a Kinetics Box >(or like boxes) necessary? Will there be a version of AUFS/CAP stuff that does >not require a box between my Mac II w/EtherTalk and my Hp Unix box on the >ethernet? If not, WHY NOT? Currently, a K-Box is required because it has to run the KIP code, that takes AppleTalk packets on the LocalTalk network destined for ethernet, and encap- sulates then into UDP packets. The EtherTalk cards just send AppleTalk packets on the ethernet, which makes them incompatible (or at least ignored) by the rest of the TCP world, including the CAP/AUFS software. Hopefully, someone (soon) will write a driver for the EtherTalk card that will encapsulate packets just like the KIP code. >And just where might NFS fit into this scheme? I know TOPS is working on >incorporating this into TOPS to some degree. However, the cost has to be >reasonable, as I am the only Mac II user in my lab, and we are not about to >spend big bucks for just one user. > We are a test site for a version of MacNFS from Univ. of Michigan, I believe. I don't think we've received it yet, but when we do, I post as much info about it as I can, depending on non-disclosure agreements, etc. Edward Moy Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy