ramsey@lll.llnl.gov (Ramsey, Susanne) (05/09/90)
We are looking at connecting some Macs to the network with ethernet cards either Asante or Apple. We are considering 2 TCP software packages. Can someone comment on them as to which is better, pros and cons, costs etc. They are : MacTCP and HostAccess TCPort We are also going to use eXodus. Your comments are most welcome. Please respond directly to me. Thanks Susanne ================================================================================ Susanne Barbera-Ramsey Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: ramsey@lll.llnl.gov 7000 East Ave. L-630 (415) 423-9530 Livermore Ca 94550 ================================================================================ DISCLAIMER: These are my words, my thoughts and my opinions. Who else would want them .. ;-) ================================================================================
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (05/10/90)
In article <58229@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, ramsey@lll.llnl.gov (Ramsey, Susanne) writes: > We are looking at connecting some Macs to the network with ethernet cards > either Asante or Apple. We are considering 2 TCP software packages. Can > someone comment on them as to which is better, pros and cons, costs etc. > They are : > > MacTCP and HostAccess TCPort First HostAccess is one product and TCPort is another. I believe HostAccess comes with TCPort (which are the TCP/IP drivers). MacTCP is a TCP/IP driver as well. Which means that more than one program can use the the drivers at the sametime. Such as eXodus and HostAccess at the sametime. HostAccess is an application that does telnet, and FTP. It currently emulates a VT100 while doing telnet. There are other similar programs on the market that do this and allow other functionality as well. NCSA Telnet InterCon's TCP/Connect II Ungermann Bass UWS (I think that's what its called) Standford MacIP (which HostAccess is based on) There are a slew of NCSA Telnet versions with additional features that have been done by various Universities. (Clarkson, etc.) I don't know how many other commercial packages use TCPort, but I would guess that there are at least as many as use MacTCP. In the long run it will boil down to how well Apple supports MacTCP, as compared to TCPort. Hope that was helpful. > We are also going to use eXodus. Your comments are most welcome. > Please respond directly to me. > > Thanks > Susanne Kurt Baumann--