On 08.12.2011 16:14, dale-gmail wrote:
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Apple did NOT setup/build a software bridge to connect/translate
AppleTalk protocol to Ethernet protocol.
all their software (apple ip gateway and apple localtalk gateway)
only connects the AppleTalk
protocol from/to localtalk from/to Ethernet. (I think that's all that
is done)..
I'm slightly puzzled by this because it appears contradictory, but the
specific point of Localtalk Bridge was to bridge Appletalk from
Serial/Localtalk to Ethernet/Ethertalk. I've used it successfully to get
old Macs filesharing to newer ones.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1258?viewlocale=en_US
As you say, though, MacIP is a different thing, but it still uses
Appletalk. It's a confusing mess since Apple used a lot of different
names for the same thing, and a lot of the same names for different
things. (Appletalk is the protocol, Localtalk is Appletalk on serial,
Ethertalk is Appletalk on Ethernet, IRTalk is Appletalk over Infrared,
MacIP is IP over Appletalk...).
Scott
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