[comp.protocols.appletalk] NCSA Telnet/Interbridges

fitz@CIVE.RI.CMU.EDU (Kerien Fitzpatrick) (12/10/87)

Since we upgraded our Kinetics FastPath boxes to the version 3.0
ROM our Hayes Interbridges do not conflict with them.  I would like
to put the Interbridges back on our network so we can benefit from
their remote network connection capability.  The problem I have 
encountered is with the NCSA Telnet software.  The Mac that I had 
connected to one side of the network was able to access fileservers
and mail servers through the FastPath box, but the NCSA Telnet software
could not find the gateway.  I believe the reason that AppleShare and
Intermail work is because they both have Zone drivers.  Does such a 
thing exist for NCSA Telnet v2.0?  If this is not the case does anyone
know if the people that write NCSA Telnet ever plan to support things
like Interbridges?


Kerien Fitzpatrick
Field Robotics Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
(412)268-6564
Arpanet:fitz@cive.ri.cmu.edu
AppleLink:a0260

krauskpf@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (12/15/87)

Remember that AppleShare and Intermail know about zones on BOTH sides
of all data transfers.  If we had zone handling in NCSA Telnet, that
wouldn't help until the Kinetics FastPath also supported zones in
the gateway software.  There are many of us who are waiting patiently
for advances in gateway software from Kinetics.  Some people have
done their own gateways even . . .

NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh (and PC) is available from:
Anonymous FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50).

Tim Krauskopf
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu