Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!violet.berkeley.edu!kevin From: kevin@violet.berkeley.edu (Kevin Baranski-Walker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Using a PC as a gateway between ETHERNET and APPLETALK Message-ID: <6095@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 12:08:53 EST Article-I.D.: jade.6095 Posted: Mon Nov 30 12:08:53 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 04:51:58 EST References: <2861@watale.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kevin@violet.berkeley.edu (Kevin Baranski-Walker) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 Keywords: TOPS, TCP/IP, DECnet I've hacked at putting together just such a beast this past summer using TOPS-DOS (with their PC Appletalk card) and DECnet-DOS (with the 3COM ethernet controler for the PC). Actually the hardest part was getting the necessary information from TOPS (which I was never successful at securing). What I did was to write a packet translator between ATalk and DECnet which appears as an application to DECnet and unknown to TOPS (just another TSR utility). Since I didn't get any useful information from TOPS and the EtherTalk card for the Mac II showed up I left this hack rusting in the corner. Nonetheless this does [still] seem like a cheap gateway and flexible enough to allow quite a few permutations; AppleShare-to-TCP/IP, AppleShare-to-DECnet, TOPS-to-TCP/IP, TOPS-to-DECnet, etc. - Kevin Kevin D. Baranski-Walker * The University of California at Berkeley / 271 Evans Hall / Berkeley, California 94720 / (415) 642-6672 kevin@violet.berkeley.edu -----[ You are Here ... ]