[rescue] Mac stuff rescue

Steve Sandau ssandau at bath.tmac.com
Mon Mar 4 13:32:06 CST 2002


> > > > I have been looking for an AppleTalk <-> Ethernet bridge (cheap/free, see my
> > > > "cheap" post in geeks), so I can connect my 4 Mac SE, SE/30's to the rest of
> > > > the world. I actually like AppleTalk.
> > >
> > > By a cheap nubus mac, throw an ethernet card in it, and run netbsd?
> > >
> > I was wondering if NetBSD supported AppleTalk. Do I take your suggestion
> > to mean that is does? I installed NetBSD on a Centris 610 (only has a
> > 68LC040 chip so it dumps core a lot) but could put it on an LC2 (with an
> > FPU) to make a gateway, too...
> 
> Well, what do you expect to do with a appletalk to ethernet gateway?  Run
> TCP over appletalk?  Fileshare with your ethernet?  Printshare?

I have Macs using AppleTalk on AppleTalk media. I would like to set up a
gateway to connect them to other meachines using AppleTalk on ethernet.
This (if possible, and I think it is) would require some gateway that
speaks AppleTalk on AppleTalk media *and* AppleTalk on ethernet... If
NetBSD on a Mac could do that, it'd be *really* cool.

-- 
Steve Sandau
IS Technician, TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com



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