24 Oct
2000
24 Oct
'00
8:22 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ford" <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Mac TCP/IP networking
setup
>> But of the 68Ks, I think the SE/30 is the
most useful (to me). I use
mine
>> as a boot server for the IIgses and as the
LocalTalk server, after I
stuck
>> a gig drive in it.
>
>Is it possible to remote boot a IIgs? I wasn't aware of that. Can you
point
>me to info about how it's done? I doubt
I'd do it, just curious. My IIgs
>has a larger HD than any of my Macs, but I've been thinging of putting
>a big drive in the IIfx I just obtained to use it as a LocalTalk server.
>
>I'm also looking for info about how to gateway between TCP/IP over
AppleTalk
>and TCP/IP over ethernet. I've got a stand
alone AppleTalk<>Ethernet
box,
>but it appears only to transport the LocalTalk
protocol without
transforming
>IP into the proper format. A couple of other
options I've been looking
at
>are putting a AppleTalk card into a Linux box or
using a Dayna SCSI
Ethernet
interface on
one of the Macs.
Any ideas on how to proceed are appreciated.
Eric
If you want TCP/IP and want to support IIgs as well as mac, the only
solution I know of is the FastPath 4 made first by Kinetics, then Shiva.
The downside is that these boxes are not trivial to figure out how to (then again they to a LOT of tricks). I have a dozen
or so of them, with
one waiting to ship just as soon as I figure out the setup just a little
better. (I found a manual last week, which should help). The upside is
that
nobody knows about them and they sell pretty cheap
(around $25 to $50
used), and they do stuff you wouldn't even guess at like Ip tunneling. The
Fastpath 5 is newer etc., but the 4 seems from what I have read to be more
friendly to Apple II clients.
There was also a slick little series of devices made by Cayman called the
GatorBox. They would bridge pretty much any protocol (TCP/IP, Appletalk,
and even DECnet) over LocalTalk to Ethernet and back.
I don't know how easy they are to track down; I've got a GatorBox CS
Rack-mount that I was looking forward to playing with, unfortunately it
appears as if the previously owning institution (a local university) set a
password on it that I am not able to remove (apparently Cayman is no
longer assisting people with lockouts as they are in the DSL business
now, and seem rather uninterested in supporting their old product
line).
In any case, nice little devices; I just wish mine worked :)
--Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net