At 10:35 AM -0800 11/17/2005, Clark Martin wrote:
At 1:11 PM -0500 11/17/05, Brian McEwen wrote:
Except that it will route AppleTalk in addition to IP, as I recall?
Not an issue, tho, unless you have AppleTalk-only printers or
older Macs that cannot do AFP/IP.
The last router that I know of, that FOR SURE will route native
(the proprietary) AppleTalk (distinctly different from the
TCP/IP-based Appletalk that showed up in OS 8.6? OS 9?) were early
versions of the NetGear MR314.
There is no "TCP/IP-based Appletalk". Apple has simply moved many
services to IP. There is such a thing as AppleTalk over IP. It is
for connecting multiple AppleTalk sites using IP. AppleSHARE over
IP is is not AppleTalk.
Yea, what Clark said. :)
AppleTalk, like TCP/IP, is a complete networking protocol stack.
They may share the same ethernet hardware, but they're two totally
different "languages".
On top of a basic stack, you add application protcols - afp, ftp, http, etc.
Apple's File Sharing (aka AppleShare) is afp (Apple Filing Protocol).
AFP/AT is what classic File Sharing did -- AFP over AppleTalk. In OS
9, Apple introduced AFP/IP -- AFP over IP.
In terms of the end-user home networking... Older printers require
AppleTalk. Newer printers can do IPP (Internet Printing Protocol).
OS 6/7/8 requires AppleTalk for AFP. OS 9 and X can do AFP/IP.
- Dan.
(I miss DECnet)
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