MD_MALAM@VAXB.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (Mehboob Alam - Macintosh Monster) (12/21/89)
Hi everyone, I've seen a lot of talk about the various forms of CAP. CAP looks very nice and affordable. So here's a question that I haven't seen discussed. We have a lab of 10 Macintosh IIcx's. Fully loaded with 5MB each. We's like to interface with a SUN Sparcstation 1 to use it as a AFP server and also to connect with MacTCP for Mathematica. Now putting every Macintosh on LocalTalk and then a FastPath/GatorBox seems like an awful bottleneck. We'd prefer to put them all on EtherTalk. Is there an implementation of CAP that can connect to a Mac using Ethernet. That would mean that the DDP translation has to be on the Mac or the SUN. (I think...) Please contact me at MD_MALAM@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU or reply to this mailing list. Sincerely, Mehboob Alam Stevens Institute of Technology ------------
krupczak@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Bobby Krupczak) (12/22/89)
<> In article <891120145915.2201df5d.MD_MALAM> MD_MALAM@VAXB.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (Mehboob Alam - Macintosh Monster) writes: > >Is there an implementation of CAP that can connect to a Mac using >Ethernet. That would mean that the DDP translation has to be on the >Mac or the SUN. (I think...) > >Please contact me at MD_MALAM@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU or reply to this >mailing list. I too would like information regarding this question. Could you all post it to the newsgroup also? Bobby
tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans) (12/27/89)
In article <891120145915.2201df5d.MD_MALAM>, MD_MALAM@VAXB.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (Mehboob Alam - Macintosh Monster) writes: > > We have a lab of 10 Macintosh IIcx's. Fully loaded with 5MB each. > We's like to interface with a SUN Sparcstation 1 to use it as a AFP > server and also to connect with MacTCP for Mathematica. > > Now putting every Macintosh on LocalTalk and then a FastPath/GatorBox > seems like an awful bottleneck. We'd prefer to put them all on > EtherTalk. You can. The FastPath has __THREE__ networks connected to it - not just the two you can see. They are LocalTalk, EtherTalk and IPTalk (aka DDP/IP aka KIP). In order to get from a Mac to the Sun (and back again), _APPLETALK_ packets are encapsulated into IP packets. The FastPath doesn't care whether the AppleTalk packets are LocalTalk or EtherTalk! The FastPath (or MultiGate or GatorBox) can just hang off the Ethernet cable, taking in EtherTalk packets and sending them out again as IPTalk to the Sun. You can then hang your LaserWriters, ImageWriters, I-Servers, Shiva's, NetModems etc. off the LocalTalk. --------- Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au | Webster Computer Corp P/L | "The concept of my 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd | existence is an Scoresby, Melbourne 3179 | approximation" Victoria, Australia | 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179 | D. Conway 2109 O'Toole Avenue, Suite J SAN JOSE CA 95131 - 1303 CALIFORNIA 1-408-954-8054 FAX 1-408-954-1832