Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] IP Encapsulation
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 05 1998 - 19:14:47 EST
Three solution come to mind:
1. Apple Internet Gateway
software product from Apple which provided a TCP-IP <-> MacIP
(IP-in-AppleTalk) Gateway.
2. Hardware router
our Cisco 2514 router does a similar thing. I'm sure other routers do too.
3. Linux IP-MacIP gateway
I know someone was working on a package that did this, and I think it work
reliably. Unfortunately I have no idea where to get it.
All the above solutions assume you have AppleTalk connectivity to the
machine in question.
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Robert Edwards wrote:
> I am new to this list, although I have been successfully using netatalk
> on two Linux boxes at home for almost a year now.
>
> I am wondering if anyone can throw any wisdom towards a solution to
> providing IP encapsulation for a Mac laptop which only has a LocalTalk
> connection (connected to my Linux boxes through an Asante Ether*Print box).
>
> I understand that some LocalTalk to EtherTalk adaptors/routers provided
> a service or protocol called "KIP" (I don't know what it stands for).
> What I want is for one of my Linux boxes to do something similar,
> unpacking IP packets from AppleTalk Streams coming from MacTCP and then
> sending them on their way on the IP network. Anyone know of any software
> that will do something like that? Any other (cheap) solutions?
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594
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