However, be forewarned that ViacomSoft apparently
knows nothing about
Appletalk Bridge software. I have an extremely small network
consisting of my PowerComputing clone and my wife's Quadra 650. We
also have three different Appletalk printers. (PLW NT, HP Deskjet and
Color Stylewriter) I have to use the Bridge software to communicate
with the printers. I use ethernet and a x-over cable to connect the
Macs. SurfDoubler would not allow access to the printers. Their tech
support had no experience with it.
While I suspect that they share some code, from the description on the
web site, SurfDoubler isn't the same as SoftRouter. I may have to
experiment a bit here...
After a month of trying to make it work, I tried
Sustainable's
IPNetRouter. Plug and play. Well worth the additional $50 if only
for the lack of agravation factor. ViacomSoft's final answer was, "
If you figure it out, let us know." I figured it out. The answer was
to drop the ViacomSoft product and replace it with IPNetRouter.
Told 'em what the fix was too! If you do not have to have a mixed
network, ViacomSoft's product will probably work just fine. It just
wouldn't work for me.
Well, I have one printer that's localtalk-only, so I have something
to test with. I do also have a Shiva box that allows sharing a single
localtalk peripheral amongst a localtalk workgroup, but I've never
messed with it.
-dq