vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella) (05/29/91)
I have tried three Telnet / FTP packages with my PCs linked to an AppleTalk network. I use AppleShare PC as my software, so I only know that these packages work with it (i.e. I have not tried them with TOPS.) Also, one is reminded that to use any of the following packages, AppleShare requires that COMPAT.COM, a module of AppleShare PC, be loaded prior to using any of these packages. Our setup is an AppleTalk network with a Shiva FastPath bridge to the campus network. The FastPath provides dynamic IP addressing to nodes requesting an IP address. Two packages allow for this dynamic addressing. -- NCSA Telnet 2.3 beta 14 or 15 is available from zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu. It is in the /NCSA_Telnet/PC.2.3beta subdirectory. It requires no external packet drivers; the driver is built in. -- NCSA Telnet 2.2TN modified at Clarkson and Princeton is available from princeton.edu. It is in the /pub subdirectory and is called pc3270.tar.Z. (It is obviously compressed and tar'd.) It also requires no external packet drivers; the driver is built in. NOTE: Some of the Unix machines on our campus (Univ. of Illinois) with new operating systems do not recognize this version of Telnet 2.2TN. We were forced to use Telnet 2.3 because of this incompatibility problem. Both of these packages allow only for dynamic IP addressing, the default for the FastPath bridge. Neither allows for static IP addressing. If you need static IP addressing (i.e. each PC has a specific IP number assigned to it instead of a pool of numbers for dynamic addressing), the only package I know to work so far is the KA9Q/LOCALTLK combination. -- KA9Q / LOCALTLK is available from ucdavis.ucdavis.edu. It is in the subdirectory /dist. The KA9Q package is in a file called netpkt.zip and the localtalk drivers in a file called local.zip. You will need both. More information is available from dkstevens@ucdavis.edu if you need it. NCSA at zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu promises a static IP addressing option in an upcoming release of NCSA Telnet 2.3, but I have yet to see it. I like KA9Q the least, because the user interface is a bit thin and less "pretty" than the NCSA Telnet interface. However, since it is the only one so far to implement static addressing, it is in some circumstances the only solution. -- Vincent Mazzarella College of Medicine, Neuroscience Program University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign e-mail: mazz@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu