On 22 Apr 2004, at 20:30, Michael Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 8:55 AM -0700 4/21/04, Timothy Virkkala wrote:LocalTalk Bridge doesn't allow TCP/IP? Hmmm.
LTB will pass MacIP packets (IP inside AppleTalk packets) but it won't convert them to IP over Ethernet. For that you need a router or something.
IPNetRouter, by Sustainable Softworks will do this -- I used that for a while. It doesn't route the LocalTalk packets, though. (I also ran LocalTalk Bridge on the same machine to get both.)
IPNetRouter is pretty nifty and works well in conjunction with LTB. An alternative product is/was available from VicomSoft.
I believe there are at least a couple of hardware LocalTalk-to-Ethernet
routers that handle TCP/IP. (Cayman Gator Box might be one -- can any
confirm?) They were a lot more expensive than the Asante-type units, but
they are probably fairly cheap used (though hard to find).
All Cayman GatorBoxes and Kinetics FastPaths support MacIP so they're ideal for connecting compacts to the internet. Early models also support KIP (the predecessor to MacIP) although this may have been dropped on later models. To the best of my knowledge, LocalTalk products from Asante and Farallon are/were LT to ethernet bridges rather than routers so regard them as AppleTalk only devices unless you have a MacIP router elsewhere on your network. More info in the .sig. A dedicated router from Cayman or Kinetics typically uses less electricity than, say, an SE/30 running software router products.
Phil --- http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/
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