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- From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.144533.20214@dvorak.amd.com>
- Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- References: <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:45:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu
- >>(Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes:
- >>> Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network
- >>connected?
- >>> If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done.
- >>>
- >>> Also, do you know if anyone is working to bring up Ethertalk?
- >>>
- >>
- >>All Macs are grouped together to LocalTalk clusters, typically 5 to 10 Macs
- per
- >>cluster. In every cluster a Kinetics FastPath is running which is hooked
- >>directly to our Ethernet backbone. The FP serves
- >>* as a bridge between different LocalTalk clusters, thus connecting them
- >> together logically (i.e. the user doesn't see the Ethernet part)
- >>* as a gateway for MacTCP packages. These are Internet packages wrapped
- >> in AppleTalk packages. The FP removes the wrapper and sends them to the
- >> Ethernet as plain Internet packages and vice versa.
- >>* as a bridge for EtherTalk packages as they can be send by
- >> Ethernet-equipped Macs. But, the other Ethernet hosts like Suns or
- >> NeXTs have to understand the EtherTalk protocol. Up to now NeXT has
- only
- >> built in the AppleTalk protocol. EtherTalk is supported on some
- >> platforms by CAP but not on NeXT.
-
- I thought it was just the opposite...that NeXT only implemented the ethertalk
- client and not the appletalk client.
-
- Someone who really knows please clarify!!!
-
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- Ronald Pomeroy "The Internet is just a giant petri dish"
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