marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) (01/03/90)
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