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Re: more MACtcp/telnet problems

#6168
From: billkatt
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 18:33
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In article <1990Feb14.090017.14223@lth.se> roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) writes:
>In article <ID4610.D900213.T121107.CJM@UNB.CA> CJM@UNB.CA writes:
>>
>> I am trying to use the MACTCP version of NCSA's Telnet in a setup where
>>  my Gateway is not in the same Zone as my Telnet session. I am having
>>  with this. My Gateway and Telnet session cannot seem to communicate.
>>  I have investigated the problem and found that it seems to be
>>  with MACTCP.
>
>I asked a similar question some time ago, and below is one of the answers:
>(from minshallEkinetics.com (Greg Minshall), THANKS!) 
>---
>> Is it possible to set up one (for the whole university) FastPath or
>> a GatorBox as a EtherTalk-tcp/ip bridge and have it perform the
>> neccesary conversion?
>...
>> Would it work? If not, why? Are the alternative solutions?
>
>With K-STAR on a FastPath, this is possible. You need to select option
>7 (and, by the way, configure things properly everywhere else), and it
>will service "MacIP" clients (be they NCSA Telnet, our HostAccess, whatever)
>connected "via" ethertalk as well as localtalk.
>
>(By the way, selecting option 7 implies that only one K-STAR (or KIP) box
>may be "in" the same zone - where "in a zone" means "has the same zone
>assigned to its localtalk port".)
>---
>
>I've tried it, and it works. I can't find option 7 documented anywhere, and
>I don't know if it is an official feature or not. 

Option 7 is documented in the docs for K-STAR 7.0 and K-STAR 8.0.

-Steve
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Subject: Re: more MACtcp/telnet problems
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 18:33:44 GMT