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From: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Mac Appletalk to ethernet bridge
Message-ID: <1395@umd5>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 20:55:40 EST
Article-I.D.: umd5.1395
Posted: Fri Dec 19 20:55:40 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 03:09:36 EST
References: <4175@jhunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: We're using Kinetics

In article <4175@jhunix.UUCP> ecf_ujaj@jhunix.UUCP (Jim Jones) writes:

>   ... The department that has Macs wants
> to be able to connect there Appletalk-networked Macs to the ethernet
> in order to gain access to the mainframes on the ether.   
> ... we were hoping for a pre-packaged commercial solution.

We're using a Kinetics FastPath Appletalk to Ethernet bridge in the
IP-within-Appletalk mode.  Just got it working last week.  The Telnet
is pretty bleak - it crashes a lot - and any attempt to do file transfer
is met with an immediate crash.  We think because we are using HFS and
the programs we have "know too much" about MFS.  New versions of the
programs are imminent, so we are very hopeful for the future.

I believe this is a "pre-packaged commercial solution" version of the
original SEAGATE code done at Stanford.
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