watstar@watale.UUCP (11/17/87)
What type of software/hardware would you need to gateway an appletalk network to an ETHERNET?? The apples would be using NCSA TELNET etc. -- Michael A. Shiels (*WatStar/pc Network Project) mike@development.watstar.waterloo.EDU UUCP: ...path...!watmath!watale!watstar EDU: watstar@watale.waterloo.EDU
kevin@violet.berkeley.edu (Kevin Baranski-Walker) (11/30/87)
I've hacked at putting together just such a beast this past summer
using TOPS-DOS (with their PC Appletalk card) and DECnet-DOS (with
the 3COM ethernet controler for the PC). Actually the hardest part
was getting the necessary information from TOPS (which I was never
successful at securing). What I did was to write a packet translator
between ATalk and DECnet which appears as an application to DECnet
and unknown to TOPS (just another TSR utility). Since I didn't get
any useful information from TOPS and the EtherTalk card for the
Mac II showed up I left this hack rusting in the corner.
Nonetheless this does [still] seem like a cheap gateway and flexible
enough to allow quite a few permutations; AppleShare-to-TCP/IP,
AppleShare-to-DECnet, TOPS-to-TCP/IP, TOPS-to-DECnet, etc.
- Kevin
Kevin D. Baranski-Walker
* The University of California at Berkeley
/ 271 Evans Hall
/ Berkeley, California 94720
/ (415) 642-6672 kevin@violet.berkeley.edu
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