Dayna Etherprint - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Dec 2003

On Dec 6, 17:22, Mike Ford wrote:
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  At 02:08 AM 12/6/03 -0600, Erik Vollbrecht wrote:
 >Hi Jim,
 >
 >Are you the Jim Arnott that posted knowledge on how to use Dayna
 >Etherprint box? I found the thread in a mail list. If so, would you be
...
  >willing to try and help me out with trying to set
one up for my home network?
...

 Etherprint should just work, only catch I have run across is that many
...
  switches don't pass ethertalk packets, and thats
what Appletalk uses over
...
  ethernet, not standard TCP/IP. Hubs work fine, but
only some switches.

Any normal Layer-2 switch should pass Ethertalk packets.  Some Layer-3
switches can do protocol filtering, and might not (or might be
configured that way) but any self-respecting ordinary Layer-2 switch
shouldn't care whether the next protocol up is Appletalk, DECNET, IPX,
IP, ARP, ...

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York