[comp.protocols.appletalk] FastPath Alternative

MACBEATH@UDLAPVMS.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Armando Mac Beath) (03/02/91)

Date sent:  1-MAR-1991 13:46:42 

Dear friends:

	Exists an alternative to use a PC with Appletalk and EtherNet Cards
and can use like a Fastpath.
	KA9q is the name ??
	
	Thanks

	Armando Mac Beath
        macbeath@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx

pacheco@varlock.osf.org (Charles Pacheco) (03/05/91)

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Greetings Appletalkers,

	Anyone have a Mac using appletalk on a separate subnnet, ie.  an ethernet
with no gatorboxes on it?

             
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rafetmad@oxy.edu (David Ronald Giller) (03/09/91)

The question was:
  Is there a way to hook a PC up to Appletalk/Ethernet networks with
  a FastPath?  Is it ka9q?

Answer:
  I (just yesterday) finally got my setup, exactly what you are talking about,
running.  I have a PC with a LocalTalk/PC card hooked up to a LocalTalk
Network, which is routed through Star Controllers and a FastPath to the
Internet.  I am using NCSA telnet 2.3 beta, which you can find at
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu.  The advantage of this over ka9q (I hear -- I haven't
used ka9q) is that NCSA has the drivers built in, whereas ka9q must have
a couple other drivers loaded to get the job done.  But NCSA works just fine:
both server and client ftp, finger, rexec, ftp password protection, etc.
The only thing that bothers me is that the start-up sequence for the LT
interface screws up my screen.	Not a big problem, as I have the source,
but for now, the finger and rexec programs aren't too useful.  oh well.

-Dave

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