[comp.protocols.appletalk] Request for info on AppleTalk routers/DDP IP gateways

tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik) (01/19/91)

Hi.

Does anyone have any info/comments/suggestions for devices that
provide *BOTH* AppleTalk routing (between LocalTalk and Ethernet)
*AND* DDP-IP Gatewaying?

The list seems to be growing.

I already know about the following products:

	Cayman's GatorBox
	Shiva's FastPath IV
	Wollongong's MacPathway AT
	NRC's Multigate 
	Webster's Multigate (or what ever the name currently is)
	Ungermann-Bass's MaxTalk

Are there any others?
Does anyone have any scorecard-like comparison of features?

Without a doubt, the GatorBox and Fastpath seem to be more widely
used.  Of course, they've been around longer (especially the FastPath).

Any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated.

Please feedback.  If I get enough responses, I'll post a summary.
I think that I could make up some sort of scorecard like they do
in MacWorld or like someone on the 'net' did with the various
TCP/IP sofftware for DOS.

(BTW, I'm aware of the router-only evaluation that MacWorld and
possibly others did a while back.  I'm interested in packages that
*IN ADDITION* to appletalk routing provide a DDP-IP gateway feature.
This requirement significantly reduces the number of candidates.

Thanks.

--Tony Olejnik
  Network Engineer
  University of Pennsylvania
  Data Communications and Computing Services
  3401 Walnut Street
  Suite 221A
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6228
  (215) 898-9408
  tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu