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." USPS: Motorola Inc. 6501 William Cannon Dr. W. Austin, TX 78735-8598 UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax,gatech}!ut-sally!oakhill!tomc sun!oakhill!tomc Phone: 512-440-2953
elwell@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!babhor
tooch%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 ...sun!tooch | tooch@sun.COM