jbvb@ftp.UUCP (James Van Bokkelen) (11/06/87)
Is there any standard for ARCnet encapsulation of IP? Has anyone even done it? Given things I have heard from ARCnet manufacturers, example hardware drivers are available. The process looks like: 1. Locate or develop a standard for IP encapsulation and address resolution. I have been told that ARCnet has a 1-byte hardware address. This would seem to point at a convention like ProNET (map low byte of the hardware address to the low byte of the IP address), instead of a permutation of ARP. 2. Obtain an example hardware driver and some hardware. Starting with MIT's P1300 driver, I would imagine that one could get on-line in a month or less. I would probably have already done this if I had time, or felt sufficiently wizardly to promulgate an encapsulation scheme. James B. VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.