On 2/15/2010 2:39 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 21:52 -0800 2/14/10, nyder wrote, and I snipped:
I have a bunch of various mac stuff, older macs.
What I'm looking to do is hook up my Apple IIgs, to an older mac over
appletalk, which in turn will be connect to a local network.
I anticipate software problems with operating any classic Mac with simultaneous
use of AppleTalk over an RS485 serial port and a plug-in Ethernet connection.
That would be called a router and, except possibly for Apple's server software,
is a problem.
NetPresenz from Stairways is still available and allows system 7 or so to act
as a two-way ftp and http server but I don't think you can set that up so it
supports both Appletalk over RS485 and ethernet at the same time.
There was a program called IPNetRouter from Sustainable Softworks that ran on
an SE/30. It handled the PPP protocol using a dial-up modem while speaking IP
over ethernet or LocalTalk. It's worth a look but - warning - you'll need to
know a whole lot about the Internet Protocol.
I got IPNetRouter running fairly nicely and easily without too much work
to bridge my Classic over to an Ethernet/TCP/IP network. All I had to do
was add interfaces for the ethernet and the serial on the IPNetRouter
box (which happened to be a Duo 210), give the serial side an IP that
didn't conflict with the rest of my network, and then tell it to do Masq
on the ethernet, and it pretty much just worked.
The main question I think would be getting MacIP on the Apple IIgs,
which the page for Marinetti seems to say it has.
All this is much simpler if all he needs is Appletalk networking for
file sharing and similar, and not TCP/IP. Localtalk Bridge should take
care of it, as I understand Apple IIgs networking to work.
Scott
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