On 12 Jul 2004, at 20:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Billings) wrote:
I now have my Mac Classic connected to my broadband connection via an old
machine running Linux. I'm using MacPPP on the Classic and I'm manually
running pppd on the Linux box, all is working and I can now read and post
to this list via Eudora (which means I don't have to fight the wife to get
to the iMac!). Through some various non-scientific experiments I have
found 38400 the fastest connection speed (57600 had a lot more packet loss)
and reducing the MTU to 576 seems to have helped too.
38400 sounds OK for a serial connection on a 68000 processor. You'll get a higher speed on a 68030.
Now even though I have a broadband connection data transfer is slow, very
akin to a dialup, but then being only serial I suppose that is to be
expected. Should the Classic be capable of reliable 57600?
No. The PPP protocol requires the client machine to do some work and the Classic doesn't have enough muscle.
If I connect another machine to my classic via appletalk, is it going to be
possible for that machine to connect to the tcp network via the classic,
MacIP (TCP/IP encapsulated in AppleTalk) will allow you to use a more modern Mac with an ethernet interface as a router for the Classic. Look up IPNetRouter. The Classic should be more responsive -- PPP is a system add-on but AppleTalk/MacIP is integrated to the system.
I'm guessing not as there would be no way to route the traffic between what
would be 2 separate networks?
That's what routers are for ;-)
Phil
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