8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
9:24 a.m.
> Mac -> Asante SCSI to ethernet adapter ->
Farallon Etherwave
>ethernet to Localtalk adapter -> Laserwriter
Yeah, I would have gone Mac to Ethernet (if the mac
needed the ethernet),
and LaserWriter to Mac via localtalk, run Apple's local talk bridge
software, and the whole ethernet network (including the local mac) will
see the laserwriter on the ethernet network.
What confused me for a long time, and is currently scheduled for again this
evening, is that Apple printers in many cases are NOT TCP/IP, but ethertalk
(same physical layer, different protocol). Some of the bridges and routers
pass TCP/IP or EtherTalk, but not both, then add to that the native network
blind character of a Wintel box and I am walking in a foggy forest.
Tonights fun, Apple Laserwriter 16/600 vs W98se, film at 11.