pauls@truevision.com (Paul Scherf) (04/11/91)
I have gotten a couple boxes full of A/UX software and documentation dropped on my desk. I managed to get A/UX installed and running, but my Mac (a IIfx) doesn't have Ethernet hardware. When my Mac ran only MacOS, I ran NCSA telnet to remote login to UNIX machines. I have been led to believe that NCSA telnet pushes TCP/IP (or UDP?) packets through Appletalk. (Is encapsulation the right term here?) I believe some sort of Appletalk/Ethernet bridge converts the packets back and forth between Appletalk and Ethernet format. I would like to have A/UX push TCP/IP (and UDP) packets through Appletalk. So I can run rlogin or telnet to the UNIX machines on the Ethernet. (I figure this will be slower than having a real Ethernet card. For rlogin/telnet, it might be fast enough.) Is there a way to accomplish this? Is ifconfig the right command? What does the A/UX kernel call the Appletalk interface? Paul Scherf pauls@truevision.com Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) (04/13/91)
In article <1991Apr11.151740.24539@truevision.com> pauls@truevision.com (Paul Scherf) writes: >I have gotten a couple boxes full of A/UX software and documentation >dropped on my desk. I managed to get A/UX installed and running, >but my Mac (a IIfx) doesn't have Ethernet hardware. > >When my Mac ran only MacOS, I ran NCSA telnet to remote login to UNIX machines. >I have been led to believe that NCSA telnet pushes TCP/IP (or UDP?) >packets through Appletalk. (Is encapsulation the right term here?) >I believe some sort of Appletalk/Ethernet bridge >converts the packets back and forth between Appletalk and Ethernet format. >I would like to have A/UX push TCP/IP (and UDP) packets through Appletalk. >So I can run rlogin or telnet to the UNIX machines on the Ethernet. >(I figure this will be slower than having a real Ethernet card. >For rlogin/telnet, it might be fast enough.) >Is there a way to accomplish this? Is ifconfig the right command? >What does the A/UX kernel call the Appletalk interface? Someone correct me if I'm totally lost in the weed, but MacOS MacTCP drivers do the IP/DDP encapsulation. Now A/UX translates MacTCP parameter block calls to low level socket calls, and there's no code for DDP/IP encapsulation as such. Maybe something like that would be easy to implement, especially if the socket TCP/IP part would be streams based (which isn't the case just now). Kent Sandvik -- Kent Sandvik, DTS junkie