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Re: Mac II as bridge to EtherNEt

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From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1989 20:46
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In comp.protocols.appletalk morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU writes:
< 
< People should be aware that there is more to a Kbox (and more still to
< a Gatorbox) than simply AppleTalk routing.  Support for IP packet
< forwarding, IP address assignment, etc, that is, all the things you
< need to run Mac/IP or NCSA Telnet through a LocalTalk-Ethernet
< connection, is completely independent of AppleTalk routing.  My
< impression is that Liaison (which I have *not* worked with) is *only*
< an AppleTalk router, and so does not support the IP functions.
That's correct. So Liaison should (in principle) be totally transparent
so that I might be able to get at K-Box/GatorBox _through_ a Liaison bridge
or whatever.
Only recent postings in this newsgroup seem to indicate that it doesn't.
I'd like to know more.
< 
< It would seem to me not too difficult in principle to port KIP to run
< on a Ethernet-attached Mac.  Hackers of the world?
OK, OK -- so where do I get the documentation from? Kinetics?
(Aren't they reading this? :-) )
Or do I read the KIP source code?
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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Mac II as bridge to EtherNEt
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Date: 23 Jan 89 20:46:05 GMT
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