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 -----[ You are Here ... ]