gus@frame.UUCP (Gus Fernandez) (04/07/89)
Has anyone written a device driver, perhaps a network adev which allows Mac II's directly connected to the Ethernet via Appl/3Com EtherTalk cards to directly send and receive KIP packets from a UNIX host running CAP without going through a KPFS or GatorBox gateway? This would avoid the extra traffic of the gateway acting as a middleman simply to convert KIP-style packets to EtherTalk and back.
quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Quent Johnson) (04/08/89)
In article <3061@frame.UUCP> gus@frame.com () writes: >Has anyone written a device driver, perhaps a network adev which allows Mac >II's directly connected to the Ethernet via Appl/3Com EtherTalk cards to >directly send and receive KIP packets from a UNIX host running CAP without >going through a KPFS or GatorBox gateway?.... I was wondering similar thoughts. I just connected a mac with a Kinetics EtherPort interface to our department ethernet and would really like to have LaserWriter output appear on the LaserWriter that's attached via RS-232 to our VAX. Today I learned about CAP but was unhappy to find that it only works through a gateway! Are there any other solutions?
morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (04/08/89)
> Has anyone written a device driver, perhaps a network adev which > allows Mac II's directly connected to the Ethernet via Appl/3Com > EtherTalk cards to directly send and receive KIP packets from a UNIX > host running CAP without going through a KPFS or GatorBox gateway?.... I believe that Kinetics has mumbled in public that they have such a beast working. I aint seen it though. Perhaps a flood of phone calls would convince them they should "productize" it. By the way, I like the name that they (as far as I know) coined for the UDP-encapsulated AppleTalk format: "IPTalk". I encourage its use by the community. I hope it's not (tm). - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford