On Friday, November 12, 2004, at 04:02 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Or are you talking about the Router only being able to route IP packets out the WAN port?
Yeah, that's the ticket! That's what I meant to say! ;-)
It's been said before but just to have it in the archive: not all wireless routers will let original Appletalk packets pass from the wired to wireless sides, either, even though you would think it would work. The NetGear MR314 does; some of their newer models do not.
Same issue.
A hub/switch moves *ethernet* packets from one port to the other.
A router moves packets between differing networks. That means it must understand more than just physical link layer (hardware iface). It must also understand the addressing scheme of the next higher layer. To route AppleTalk packets over differing physical mediums (ethernet, 802.11), it must understand AppleTalk routing.
The newer TCP/IP based protocol (the "connect via server IP" option button) in the chooser will always work though.
"always"? No.
If will fail if one of the Macs involved is running an OS earlier than 9, unless the user has installed an older version of ShareWay (and paid the fee).
- Dan.
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