chuck@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton) (06/23/91)
After poking through all of Inside Mac and some of Inside AppleTalk, it seems
possible to write a ".ENET0" driver (adev?) that would allow MacTCP to talk over normal
serial connections.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how hard this might be, or if it's the right
approach at all? Has anyone done it yet? Where are the docs on writing ENET
type driver? (Inside Ethertalk?)
Chuck
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"Your silly quote here." AppleLink: D1683 MacNet: shottonbrad@stjohn.cayman.com (06/24/91)
>> >> After poking through all of Inside Mac and some of Inside >> AppleTalk, it seems possible to write a ".ENET0" driver (adev?) >> that would allow MacTCP to talk over normal serial connections. >> >> Does anyone have any thoughts on how hard this might be, or if it's >> the right approach at all? Has anyone done it yet? Where are the >> docs on writing ENET type driver? (Inside Ethertalk?) >> >> Chuck Shotton Internet: cshotton@girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu It's certainly been theorized. However, there is no way to tell MacTCP that your link is slow and it should adjust it's timeouts. A better solution would be to interface with MacTCP directly. I suspect Apple has thought of this and probably has plans to address this in the future. Bottom line: I would not recommend spoofing with a fake .ENET driver unless the resulting network connection is ethernet speed or close (withing a order of magnitude) -brad
shoemake@Apple.COM (Mike Shoemaker) (06/24/91)
chuck@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton) writes: >After poking through all of Inside Mac and some of Inside AppleTalk, it seems >possible to write a ".ENET0" driver (adev?) that ... >... Where are the docs on writing ENET >type driver? (Inside Ethertalk?) >Chuck >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Chuck Shotton Internet: cshotton@girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu > UUCP: ...!buster!brain!chuck >"Your silly quote here." AppleLink: D1683 MacNet: shotton See Inside Macintosh Volume VI. It is in the AppleTalk chapter -- there is a whole section on the .ENET driver. Mike Shoemaker