tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham) (05/22/87)
Pardon if this has been beaten to death here already, but I don't ordinarily
follow this newsgroup. We are going to be getting a Macintosh II, and would
like to hook it into our existing network of Sun-3s. Does anyone have any
info/impressions about products that are or will be available to do this
(software and hardware)? Ideally the software would use NFS, but standard
ftp and telnet (?) would suffice for now. Any pointers greatly appreciated!
--
Tom Cunningham "Good, fast, cheap -- select two."
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Phone: 512-440-2953elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) (05/23/87)
We have an evaluation Mac II with an Apple Ethernet card running A/UX.
A/UX (at least our copy) has NFS, Yellow Pages, and full Berkeley
networking. It talks just fine to our Sun file servers. The baord has
two connectors, one for a standard transceiver cable and one for a
thin Ethernet ("Cheapernet") cable (like a Sun/3).
-=-
Clayton Elwell
The meek are getting ready... Elwell@Ohio-State.ARPA
...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!babhortooch%mongoose@Sun.COM (Michael J. Tuciarone) (05/27/87)
If you want to hook your Mac up to Ethernet there are two ways to go:
o as has been mentioned, a Mac II running A/UX and equipped
with an Ethernet card becomes a fairly standard Unix
workstation: NFS, r{login,sh,cp,...}, Yellow Pages &c.
o alternatively, you could use an AppleTalk<->Ethernet
bridge box (Kinetics FastPath or some such) and networking
software (TOPS from Centram, for instance). The files
are transparently available on the two systems. The
advantage to this is that it works with any Mac, and
the Mac doesn't have to run Unix. I've seen a demo
involving Kinetics, TOPS, a Mac+, and a Sun-3/52; it
seemed to work.
--Mike Tuciarone
Sun Microsystems
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